Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia

ChorSwang Ngin

doi:10.5771/9781498574747

Summary

ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate of Islam, several victims of ethnic and sexual violence from Indonesia, and the escape of men and women from China’s draconian one-child policy, among others. Joann Yeh, an immigration attorney and contributor to this work, examines asylum seeking in a Mandarin-speaking Californian community and discuss the failure of the United States' quasi-judicial immigration system, highlighting "asylum lawfare" in courtroom dramas and arguing for an anthropological advantage in asylum preparation. This book is an essential text for policy makers, students, lawyers, activists, and those engaged with migration studies seeking a more just asylum outcome.

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7473-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7474-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. 1 I Don’t Need Your Bones to Know Your Race No access
2. 2 How Much Chinese Should a Chinese Be? No access
3. 3 Racialization and Persecution No access
4. 4 A Student Protester from a Myanmar Prison No access
1. 5 A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian Pastor No access
2. 6 Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or a Field of Grass? No access
3. 7 An Apostate from Indonesia: No access
1. 8 Ethnographic Details as Evidence of Rape and Pregnancy No access
2. 9 Without Evidence and Without Witness No access
3. 10 Dowry Dispute: No access
1. 11 A Filial Daughter’s Devotion to Falun Gong Practice No access
2. 12 Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous Claim No access
3. 13 Mr. Sung’s Embarrassment or Humiliation? No access
1. 14 Article I Court in a World of Uncertainties No access
2. 15 There is an Anthropologist in the Courtroom No access
References No access Pages 235 - 244
Index No access Pages 245 - 252
About the Contributors No access Pages 253 - 254