Identities on trial in the United States : asylum seekers from Asia /

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Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Ngin, ChorSwang, Yeh, Joann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Colección:Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change.
Temas:
Asylum, Right of > United States.
Asians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Immigration enforcement > United States.
Administrative courts > United States.
Forensic anthropology > United States.
Droit d'asile > États-Unis.
Émigration et immigration > Lois > Application > États-Unis.
Tribunaux administratifs > États-Unis.
Anthropologie légale > États-Unis.
LAW / Constitutional
LAW / Public
Administrative courts
Asians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Asylum, Right of
Forensic anthropology
Immigration enforcement
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / David W. Haines
  • Introduction : the asylum seeker as the anthropological figure of the twenty-first century
  • I don't need your bones to know your race
  • How much Chinese should a Chinese be?
  • Racialization and persecution
  • A student protester from a Myanmar prison
  • A Buddhist monk, a Catholic woman, a Christian pastor
  • Did Jesus walk through a field of wheat or a field of grass? / co-authored with Joann Yeh
  • An apostate from Indonesia : a convert from Islam to Catholicism
  • Ethnographic details as evidence on rape and pregnancy
  • Without evidence and without witness
  • Dowry dispute : a case for the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw
  • A filial daughter's love of Falun Gong exercises
  • Her forced abortion was a frivolous claim
  • Double tragedy : Mr. Song's humiliation or embarrassment?
  • Article I courts in a world of uncertainties / co-authored with Joann Yeh
  • An anthropologist in the courtroom / co-authored with Joann Yeh.

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