Identities on Trial in the United States

Asylum Seekers from Asia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av ChorSwang Ngin, Chorswang Ngin

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ChorSwang 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-15
Mått158 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
Antal sidor266
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareHaines,DavidW.
ISBN9781498574730
UtmärkelserGAD New Directions Award

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Part I: Persecution on Account of Race and NationalityChapter 1: I Don’t Need your Bones to Know your RaceChapter 2: How Much Chinese Should a Chinese be?Chapter 3: Racialization and PersecutionChapter 4: A Student Protester from a Myanmar Prison Part II: Persecution on Account of ReligionChapter 5: A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian PastorChapter 6: Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or A Field of Grass? (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)Chapter 7: An Apostate from Indonesia: A Convert from Islam to CatholicismPart III: Persecution on Account of Membership of a Particular GroupChapter 8: Ethnographic Details as Evidence on Rape and PregnancyChapter 9: Without Evidence and Without WitnessChapter 10: Dowry Dispute: A Case for the Law Firm of Seyfarth ShawPart IV: Persecution on Account of Political OpinionChapter 11: A Filial Daughter’s Love of Falun Gong ExercisesChapter 12: Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous ClaimChapter 13: Double Tragedy: Mr. Song’s Humiliation or Embarrassment?Part V: Law and AnthropologyChapter 14: Article I Courts in a World of Uncertainties (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)Chapter 15: An Anthropologist in the Courtroom (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)

Identities 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.