Judging Refugees - Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anthea Vogl, Anthea (University of Technology Vogl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781108831857
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83185-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, immigration law, International institutions, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations