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Book SynopsisAfrican 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.
Trade Review“This is a first-rate collection of original essays focused on asylum jurisprudence involving African refugees…. These essays are provocative, well documented, and eloquent. The authors examine a subject that has been largely overlooked: the extraordinarily significant role of experts in legal processes…. The impressive contributors are anthropologists, historians, and legal scholars who offer provocative remarks about cases including many in which they served as expert witnesses.”
Table of Contents* Foreword. Penelope Andrews* Preface and Acknowledgments* Introduction. Law, Expertise, and Protean Ideas about African Migrants Benjamin N. Lawrance, Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Joanna T. Tague, and Meredith Terretta*1. Before Asylum and the Expert Witness Mozambican Refugee Settlement and Rural Development in Southern Tanzania, 1964-75 Joanna T. Tague*2. Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization The Case of Cameroon Meredith Terretta*3. The Evolving Refugee Definition How Shifting Elements of Eligibility Affect the Nature and Focus of Expert Testimony in Asylum Proceedings Karen Musalo*4. Expert Evidence in British Asylum Courts The Judicial Assessment of Evidence on Ethnic Discrimination and Statelessness in Ethiopia John Campbell*5. "The Immigration People Know the Stories. There's One for Each Country" The Case of Mauritania E . Ann McDougall*6. Cultural Silences as an Excuse for Injustice The Problems of Documentary Proof Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman*7. Between Advocacy and Deception Crafting an African Asylum Narrative Iris Berger*8. Allegations, Evidence, and Evaluation Asylum Seeking in a World of Witchcraft Katherine Luongo*9. Sexual Minorities among African Asylum Claimants Human Rights Regimes, Bureaucratic Knowledge, and the Era of Sexual Rights Diplomacy Charlotte Walker-Said*10. The "Asylum-Advocacy Nexus" in Anthropological Perspective Agency, Activism, and the Construction of Eritrean Political Identities Tricia Redeker Hepner* Afterword Fallou Ngom* About the Authors* Index
