0203945344 (electronic bk.)

9780203945346 (electronic bk.)

1904385559

1904385567

9781904385554

9781904385561

"A GlassHouse book."

Description based on print version record.

"Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts is a study of the legal process of claiming asylum from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the role of expert evidence from 'country experts' such as anthropologists. It describes how such evidence is used in assessments of asylum claims by the Home Office and by immigration judges and tribunals hearing asylum appeals. It compares uses of social scientific and medical evidence in legal decision making and analyses anthropologically the legal uses of key concepts from the 1951 Refugee Convention such as 'race', 'religion', and 'social group'.

Material is drawn from field observation of more than 300 appeal hearings in London and Glasgow; from reported case law; and from interviews with immigration judges, tribunal chairs, barristers and solicitors, as well as expert witnesses."--Jacket.

Original

Online version: Good, Anthony. Anthropology and expertise in the asylum courts. Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007

Online version: Good, Anthony. Anthropology and expertise in the asylum courts. Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007

Asylum as a social and political problem

Anthropologists and lawyers

Studying asylum

Convention refugees : an anthropological approach

Claiming asylum

Expert evidence

Interpretation

Assessing credibility

Weighing expert evidence

Reaching decisions

Risk, authority and expertise.

Asylum, Right of > Great Britain.

Courts of special jurisdiction > Great Britain.

Evidence, Expert > Great Britain.

Forensic anthropology > Great Britain.

Political refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain.