Judging Refugees

Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

Anthea Vogl (University of Technology, Sydney)

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Cambridge University Press
28 March 2024

Series: Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies

To access state-based refugee protection regimes, refugee applicants must speak. They must narrate the basis of their claims in person, often before a single decision-maker, repeatedly and at length. In Judging Refugees Anthea Vogl investigates the black box of the refugee oral hearing and the politics of narrative within individualised processes for refugee status determination (RSD). Drawing on a rich archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the critical role played by the discretionary spaces of refugee decision-making, and the gate-keeping functions of credibility assessment. Judging Refugees explores the disciplining role of 'good refugee' stories within RSD and demonstrates that refugee applicants must be able to present their evidence in model Anglo-European narrative forms to be judged as authentic, credible and ultimately, to be granted access to protection.

By: Anthea Vogl (University of Technology Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 507g
ISBN: 9781108831857
ISBN 10: 1108831850
Series: Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 28 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Law, Literature, and Narrative in the Rsd Oral Hearing; 3. How did we get Here? A history of the Oral Hearing in Australia and Canada; 4. The Stock Narrative of becoming a refugee; 5. Narrative contest as structuring the Oral Hearing; 6. 'I'll Just Stop You There': fragmentation of Refugees' Oral Testimony; 7. Beyond the demand for Narrative: genres of refugee testimony; 8. Conclusion.

Anthea Vogl is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an expert in the legal regulation of asylum, borders, refugees and non-citizens and her research has been published in leading journals and collections.