Judging Refugees

Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

Anthea Vogl (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83185-7 (ISBN)

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A critical, interdisciplinary account of how refugees and their oral testimony are judged by refugee-receiving states. A comprehensive legal analysis of systems of refugee status determination in Australia and Canada and the role of narrative studies and narrative theory in understanding international refugee law and its application.

To access state-based refugee protection regimes, refugee applicants must speak. They must narrate the basis of their claims in person, often before a single decision-maker, repeatedly and at length. In Judging Refugees Anthea Vogl investigates the black box of the refugee oral hearing and the politics of narrative within individualised processes for refugee status determination (RSD). Drawing on a rich archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the critical role played by the discretionary spaces of refugee decision-making, and the gate-keeping functions of credibility assessment. Judging Refugees explores the disciplining role of 'good refugee' stories within RSD and demonstrates that refugee applicants must be able to present their evidence in model Anglo-European narrative forms to be judged as authentic, credible and ultimately, to be granted access to protection.

Anthea Vogl is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an expert in the legal regulation of asylum, borders, refugees and non-citizens and her research has been published in leading journals and collections.

1. Introduction; 2. Law, Literature, and Narrative in the Rsd Oral Hearing; 3. How did we get Here? A history of the Oral Hearing in Australia and Canada; 4. The Stock Narrative of becoming a refugee; 5. Narrative contest as structuring the Oral Hearing; 6. 'I'll Just Stop You There': fragmentation of Refugees' Oral Testimony; 7. Beyond the demand for Narrative: genres of refugee testimony; 8. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	507 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-108-83185-0 / 1108831850
ISBN-13	978-1-108-83185-7 / 9781108831857
Zustand	Neuware