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Identities on Trial in the United States
Asylum Seekers from Asia
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2018
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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2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7473-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7474-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
254
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1 I Don’t Need Your Bones to Know Your Race No access
2 How Much Chinese Should a Chinese Be? No access
3 Racialization and Persecution No access
4 A Student Protester from a Myanmar Prison No access
5 A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian Pastor No access
6 Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or a Field of Grass? No access
7 An Apostate from Indonesia: No access
8 Ethnographic Details as Evidence of Rape and Pregnancy No access
9 Without Evidence and Without Witness No access
10 Dowry Dispute: No access
11 A Filial Daughter’s Devotion to Falun Gong Practice No access
12 Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous Claim No access
13 Mr. Sung’s Embarrassment or Humiliation? No access
14 Article I Court in a World of Uncertainties No access
15 There is an Anthropologist in the Courtroom No access
