African Asylum At A Crossroads

Author : Iris Berger,Tricia Redeker Hepner,Benjamin N. Lawrance,Joanna T. Tague,Meredith Terretta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0821421387

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African Asylum at a Crossroads by Iris Berger,Tricia Redeker Hepner,Benjamin N. Lawrance,Joanna T. Tague,Meredith Terretta Pdf

African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate. Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte Walker-Said.

Author : Iris Berger,Tricia Redeker Hepner,Benjamin N. Lawrance,Joanna T. Tague,Meredith Terretta
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821445181

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African Asylum at a Crossroads by Iris Berger,Tricia Redeker Hepner,Benjamin N. Lawrance,Joanna T. Tague,Meredith Terretta Pdf

African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate. Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte Walker-Said.

Author : Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253064448

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African Refugees by Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso Pdf

African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze—where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems—seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power.

Author : Katherine Luongo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000860184

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African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking by Katherine Luongo Pdf

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North – Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom – have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent. The work intervenes at the nexus of anthropological, historical, legal, developmental, and human rights literatures to offer fresh insights into extrajudicial violence and global migration. Taking witchcraft-based asylum cases as its focal point, it argues that the recent dramatic expansion in claims to refugee protection under the ‘particular social group’ category of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention reflects immigration authorities’ increasing willingness to consider how legally recognizable persecution can derive from cultural practices and beliefs. Reflecting critically on such cases, it advances understandings of how witchcraft beliefs and practices have persisted as significant engines of violence in the contemporary world. It sheds light both on the limits of legal pluralism and cultural relativism in asylum adjudication and on how social scientific expertise contributes not simply to the flow of ideas, but also to the channelling of people across national, cultural, and epistemological boundaries. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers in legal anthropology, African studies, human rights, transnational history, migration and refugee law and policy, and the history and anthropology of witchcraft.

Author : Bridget M. Haas,Amy Shuman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821446676

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Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum by Bridget M. Haas,Amy Shuman Pdf

Across the globe, migration has been met with intensifying modes of criminalization and securitization, and claims for political asylum are increasingly met with suspicion. Asylum seekers have become the focus of global debates surrounding humanitarian obligations, on the one hand, and concerns surrounding national security and border control, on the other. In Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum, contributors provide fine-tuned analyses of political asylum systems and the adjudication of asylum claims across a range of sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. The contributors to this timely volume, drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives, offer critical insights into the processes by which tensions between humanitarianism and security are negotiated at the local level, often with negative consequences for asylum seekers. By investigating how a politics of suspicion within asylum systems is enacted in everyday practices and interactions, the authors illustrate how asylum seekers are often produced as suspicious subjects by the very systems to which they appeal for protection. Contributors: Ilil Benjamin, Carol Bohmer, Nadia El-Shaarawi, Bridget M. Haas, John Beard Haviland, Marco Jacquemet, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Rachel Lewis, Sara McKinnon, Amy Shuman, Charles Watters

Author : Iris Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521517072

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Women in Twentieth-Century Africa by Iris Berger Pdf

Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

Author : William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119063575

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A Companion to African History by William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe Pdf

Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.

Author : Hiram A. Ruiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015018871478

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Peace Or Terror by Hiram A. Ruiz Pdf

This paper is based, in part, on a five-week USCR fact-finding trip to Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia in August and September 1989. The people of Mozambique and Angola continue to suffer intolerably. Many are dying needlessly. Some are starving, others are being purposely killed. Every month, another 13,000 Mozambicans flee to Malawi. There are now more than 750,000 refugees in that country alone. Throughout southern Africa, more than 4.5 million people have been uprooted by conflicts that continue to ravage the area. This paper briefly describes the events that led to today's conflicts in Mozambique and Angola. It discusses current developments in each of these countries, focusing on the situation of internally displaced people. It assesses conditions in asylum countries, discusses the repatriation of Namibians and examines what the success or failure of Mozambican and Angolan peace talks could mean for the region and its people. Finally, the paper makes recommendations for action to help end the conflict in Mozambique and Angola and steps needed to improve the current situation of refugees, displaced persons and returnees in southern Africa. It also recommends action by the United States and the rest of the international community to ensure that, whatever the peace initiatives achieve, the rights of uprooted Southern Africans will be safeguarded. (Based on author's summary).

Author : Benjamin N. Lawrance,Galya Ruffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107069060

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Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status by Benjamin N. Lawrance,Galya Ruffer Pdf

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

Author : Ashley Currier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427890

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Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa by Ashley Currier Pdf

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Author : John Henrik Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1310593500

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Africans at the Crossroads by John Henrik Clarke Pdf

Author : Katherine Jensen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226828442

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The Color of Asylum by Katherine Jensen Pdf

"In 2013, the world watched as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country. Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy to all Syrian refugees. Why did Brazil-in contrast to much of the international community-offer asylum to any Syrian who would come? And how do Syrians differ from other refugee populations seeking status in Brazil, and why? In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen provides an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logics behind their treatment. She focuses on two of the largest and most successful groups of asylum seekers: Syrian and Congolese refugees. While they obtain asylum status in Brazil at roughly equivalent rates, their journey to that status could not be more different. While Syrians travel to Brazil on visas and in airplanes, most Congolese refugees reach Brazil as stowaways on ships. Congolese migrants wait in long lines in unbearable heat to see immigration officials, while Syrians go through an expedited process. And while Syrian migrants reported a relaxed and comfortable environment while meeting with immigration officials, Congolese migrants were met with distrust and suspicion as they recounted the harrowing and traumatic stories of life in their home country. As Jensen shows, Syrians are treated so differently from other asylum seekers because the Brazilian state recognizes them as white. This dates back to Brazilian immigration policy that followed the abolition of slavery. Eager to "whiten" its population, Brazil welcomed a first wave of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants-a precedent that would affect the nation's policy toward Syrian refugees in the twenty-first century. On the other hand, anti-black racism shapes the experiences of Congolese and other African refugees and entrenches racial inequalities-even among those deemed worthy of safe haven. Jensen's comparative study arrives at an unexpected conclusion, however: even when migrants do obtain asylum status, Jensen finds that their lives remain largely unchanged, marked by struggle and discrimination"--

Author : Carol Bohmer,Amy Shuman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319674049

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Political Asylum Deceptions by Carol Bohmer,Amy Shuman Pdf

This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed. Credibility is the central issue in determining the legitimacy of political asylum seekers, but the line between truth and lies is often elusive, partly because desperate people often have to use deception to escape persecution. The vetting process has become infused with a climate of suspicion that not only assesses the credibility of an applicant’s story and differentiates between the economic migrant and the person fleeing persecution, but also attempts to determine whether an applicant represents a future threat to the receiving country. This innovative text approaches the problem of deception from several angles, including increased demand for evidence, uses of new technologies to examine applicants’ narratives, assessments of forged documents, attempts to differentiate between victims and persecutors, and ways that cultural misunderstandings can compromise the process. Essential reading for researchers and students of Political Science, International Studies, Refugee and Migration Studies, Human Rights, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, Public Policy, and Narrative Studies.

Author : Joris Schapendonk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789206814

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Finding Ways Through Eurospace by Joris Schapendonk Pdf

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues that a migration lens is not necessarily the best starting point to understand these dynamic im/mobility processes. Rather than seeing migrancy as the primary marker of their lives, this book positions these trajectories in a wider social script of mobility and discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.

Author : Benjamin N. Lawrance,Nathan Riley Carpenter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253038104

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Africans in Exile by Benjamin N. Lawrance,Nathan Riley Carpenter Pdf

The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.