TY  - BOOK
ED  - Berger, Iris
ED  - Hepner, Tricia
ED  - Lawrence, Benjamin
ED  - Tague, Joanna
ED  - Terretta, Meredith
AB  - This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first 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. 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1rfsp0z
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004761
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100536616
KW  - Political Science
KW  - human rights
KW  - law
KW  - African studies
KW  - refugee rights
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/80ce2066-d29e-4230-9d2c-b0a0dbe7588e/1004761.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25338
PB  - Ohio University Press
PY  - 2015-05-15
SN  - 9780821445181
TI  - African Asylum at a Crossroads : Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights
ER  - 
