Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status : the Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony.

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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication; Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise; 1 Reconstructing Babel: Bridging Cultural Dissonance between Asylum Seekers and Adjudicators; 2Recovering the Sociological Identity of Asylum Seekers: Language Analysis for Determining National Origin in the European Union.

3Research and Testimony in the "Rape Capital of the World": Experts and Evidence in Congolese Asylum Claims 4Beyond Expert Witnessing: Interdisciplinary Practice in Representing Rape Survivors in Asylum Cases ; 5Anthropological Evidence and Country of Origin Information in British Asylum Courts; Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise; 6Expert as Aid and Impediment: Navigating Barriers to Effective Asylum Representation ; 7Documenting Torture Sequelae: The Weill Cornell Model for Forensic Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Medical Education.

8Incredible Until Proven Credible: Mental Health Expert Testimony and the Systemic and Cultural Challenges Facing Asylum Applicants 9Importing Forensic Biomedicine into Asylum Adjudication: Genetic Ancestry and Isotope Testing in the United Kingdom ; 10"Health Tourism" or "Atrocious Barbarism"? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice ; Afterword: Lisa Dornell; Index.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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