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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. xi |
Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Table of cases | p. xv |
Table of statutes | p. xxiii |
Table of statutory instruments | p. xxv |
Prologue: Tales of persecution | p. 1 |
Asylum as a social and political problem | p. 5 |
The emergence of the refugee | p. 5 |
The scale of the 'problem' | p. 7 |
Background to the research | p. 10 |
Anthropologists and lawyers | p. 15 |
The fall and rise of the anthropology of law | p. 15 |
Legal and anthropological discourses | p. 25 |
Anthropology in the courts | p. 34 |
Studying asylum | p. 39 |
Previous studies of asylum processes | p. 39 |
Research methods | p. 42 |
Convention refugees: an anthropological approach | p. 47 |
The Refugee Convention in the European Union | p. 47 |
UK interpretations of the 1951 Convention | p. 50 |
'Well-founded fear' | p. 51 |
'Of being persecuted' | p. 54 |
'For reasons of race' | p. 63 |
'Religion' | p. 66 |
'Nationality' | p. 73 |
'Membership of a particular social group' | p. 74 |
'Political opinion' | p. 84 |
'Outside the country of his nationality' | p. 87 |
'Unable [or] unwilling' | p. 87 |
Gender and sexuality | p. 91 |
UNHCR and IND: an overview | p. 96 |
Claiming asylum | p. 99 |
Processing and assessing applications | p. 99 |
Appeal hearings | p. 105 |
The hearing process | p. 109 |
Certification | p. 117 |
Tribunal hearings | p. 119 |
Outcomes | p. 122 |
Expert evidence | p. 129 |
'Objective evidence' | p. 129 |
A brief history of expert witnesses | p. 131 |
The duties of expert witnesses | p. 136 |
Reliability and admissibility of expert evidence | p. 140 |
Instructing 'country experts' | p. 146 |
Expert reports | p. 148 |
Interpretation | p. 153 |
Interpreters in the asylum process | p. 153 |
Interpretation problems | p. 157 |
The impact of interpreters on asylum hearings | p. 166 |
Cultural (mis)translation | p. 170 |
Translation and performance | p. 182 |
Assessing credibility | p. 187 |
Principles of credibility assessment | p. 187 |
Telling their stories | p. 190 |
Judicial assessments of credibility | p. 194 |
Country experts and credibility assessments | p. 198 |
Medical experts and credibility | p. 203 |
Experts and judicial hegemony | p. 208 |
Weighing expert evidence | p. 211 |
The notion of evidential weight | p. 211 |
Home Office Country Assessments | p. 212 |
Weighing expert evidence | p. 216 |
Bias and objectivity | p. 222 |
Oral expert evidence | p. 226 |
Multiple experts: the Karanakaran appeal | p. 229 |
Tribunals as experts | p. 233 |
Judicial pragmatism | p. 237 |
Reaching decisions | p. 239 |
Judicial reasoning | p. 239 |
The standard and burden of proof | p. 240 |
The 'chemistry of unanimity' | p. 243 |
Risk assessment in asylum decision making | p. 245 |
Determinations and decisions | p. 248 |
Risk, authority and expertise | p. 253 |
The social construction of risk | p. 253 |
The complicity of the expert | p. 257 |
One-way tickets v. The Sword of Damocles | p. 261 |
Postscript | p. 267 |
Bibliography | p. 271 |
Index | p. 287 |
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