{"product_id":"identities-on-trial-in-the-united-states-9781498574754","title":"Identities on Trial in the United States","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate of Islam, several victims of ethnic and sexual violence from Indonesia, and the escape of men and women from China's draconian one-child policy, among others. Joann Yeh, an immigration attorney and contributor to this work, examines asylum seeking in a Mandarin-speaking Californian community and discuss the failure of the United States'' quasi-judicial immigration system, highlighting asylum lawfare in courtroom dramas and arguing for an anthropological advantage in asylum preparation. This book is an essential text for policy makers, students, lawyers, activists, and those engaged with migration studies seeking a more just asylum outcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdentities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia unravels the tormented stories that lie behind asylum claims in the United States. This fieldwork based book offers a fascinating range of cases that illustrates the dilemmas, conflicts and contradictions of cultural expertise. It poignantly argues against the narrow use of culture for a fair adjudication and makes a convincing case of the involvement of anthropologists in court. -- Livia Holden, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmigration today is so misrepresented, and the political asylum process so daunting, that a book as readable and scholarly as Identities on Trial in the United States is most welcome. Particularly invaluable are presentations of cases that involve each of the grounds for granting asylum claims – race, nationality, religion, political opinion, and social group membership – for which cultural analyses emerge as crucial for verifying conditions of persecution and credibility of accounts. This promises to be a significant resource for students and professionals involved in human rights, anthropology, migration, current Asian affairs, and law.\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Loucky, Western Washington University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Persecution on Account of Race and Nationality\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: I Don’t Need your Bones to Know your Race\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: How Much Chinese Should a Chinese be?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Racialization and Persecution\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: A Student Protester from a Myanmar Prison \u003cbr\u003ePart II: Persecution on Account of Religion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian Pastor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or A Field of Grass? (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: An Apostate from Indonesia: A Convert from Islam to Catholicism\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Persecution on Account of Membership of a Particular Group\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Ethnographic Details as Evidence on Rape and Pregnancy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Without Evidence and Without Witness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Dowry Dispute: A Case for the Law Firm of Seyfarth Shaw\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Persecution on Account of Political Opinion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: A Filial Daughter’s Love of Falun Gong Exercises\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous Claim\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Double Tragedy: Mr. Song’s Humiliation or Embarrassment?\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Law and Anthropology\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Article I Courts in a World of Uncertainties (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: An Anthropologist in the Courtroom (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040818397527,"sku":"9781498574754","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/identities-on-trial-in-the-united-states-9781498574754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}