Judging refugees : narrative and oral testimony in refugee status determination / Anthea Vogl, University of Technology Sydney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogl, Anthea, author.

Series:

Cambridge asylum and migration studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Australia.

Refugees.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Asylum, Right of--Australia.

Asylum, Right of.

Asylum, Right of--Canada.

Legal assistance to refugees--Australia.

Legal assistance to refugees.

Legal assistance to refugees--Canada.,.

Emigration and immigration law--Australia.

Emigration and immigration law.

Emigration and immigration law--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 174 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by the publisher

Contents:

Law, literature, and narrative in the RSD [refugee status determination] oral hearings

How did we get here? : a history of the oral hearing in Australia and Canada

The stock narrative of becoming refugee

Narrative contest as structuring the oral hearing

'I'll just stop you here' : fragmentation of refugees' oral testimony

Beyond the demand for narrative : genres of refugee testimony

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Mar 2024).

ISBN:

9781108924115

1108924115

9781108934930

1108934935

9781108912402

1108912400