African asylum at a crossroads : activism, expert testimony, and refugee rights /

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Imprint:Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages .)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11251429
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Other authors / contributors:Berger, Iris, 1941- editor.
ISBN:9780821445181
0821445189
9780821421383
0821421387
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts incre.
Other form:Print version: African asylum at a crossroads 9780821421383