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Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

Author: Anthea Vogl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108831857
Published In: March 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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To access state-based refugee protection regimes, refugee applicants must speak. They must narrate the basis of their claims in person, often before a single decision-maker, repeatedly and at length.

In Judging Refugees Anthea Vogl investigates the black box of the refugee oral hearing and the politics of narrative within individualised processes for refugee status determination (RSD). Drawing on a rich qualitative archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the still-critical role played by the profoundly discretionary spaces of refugee decision-making, and the gate-keeping functions of credibility assessment.

Judging Refugees explores the disciplining role of 'good refugee' stories within RSD and demonstrates that refugee applicants must be able to present their evidence in model Anglo-European narrative forms to be judged as authentic, credible and ultimately, to be granted access to protection.

Provides an original and evidence-based account of refugee oral hearings and exchanges between decision-makers and refugee applicants
Explores the conduct of refugee assessment in a clear, comprehensive and accessible manner
Provides a highly current, cross-jurisdictional account of the existing challenges of credibility assessment, and reasons for the failure of credibility reform

1. Introduction

2. Law, Literature, and Narrative in the Rsd Oral Hearing

3. How did we get Here? A history of the Oral Hearing in Australia and Canada

4. The Stock Narrative of becoming a refugee

5. Narrative contest as structuring the Oral Hearing

6. 'I'll Just Stop You There': fragmentation of Refugees' Oral Testimony

7. Beyond the demand for Narrative: genres of refugee testimony

8. Conclusion