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  1. Narrating atrocity
    uses of evidence in the political asylum process
    Erschienen: 2010
    Verlag:  CDR, Copenhagen

    Political asylum is one remedy for human rights abuses. By offering safe haven to people fleeing persecution in their homelands, countries providing political asylum acknowledge that violence can make some places too dangerous for members of... mehr

    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
    DS 130 (2010,25)
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    Political asylum is one remedy for human rights abuses. By offering safe haven to people fleeing persecution in their homelands, countries providing political asylum acknowledge that violence can make some places too dangerous for members of particular groups. Asylum and human rights' discourses have run on parallel tracks in the post-World War II period, with the initial international recognition of human rights in 1948 (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights), followed by the1951 Refugee Convention. From the beginning, it was important that asylum law not conflict with the sanctity of the sovereign state. As a result, the treaties provide neither the means nor the political mandate to protect people from human rights abuses which are internal to sovereign states. Instead, asylum and refugee law provides one rather piecemeal and ineffective method of addressing such human rights abuses. It addresses human rights abuses on an individual basis and does not apply to many of those who, it could be argued, suffer from such abuses. Accordingly, it is a band aid rather than a potential solution to the problem of human rights, though it may serve the purpose of alerting the world to the existence of human rights abuses in a particular state. In this paper, Amy Schuman and Carol Bohmer explore the disconnect between asylum law and human rights at two levels. First, the relationship between written documentation and oral narrative testimony in political asylum hearings is examined as genres of representation that display and rely on different norms of evidence. Second, it is considered how these evidentiary differences exacerbate the impossible subjectivity of the asylum seeker, whose success in the process depends upon proving that she is who she says she is and that the atrocities she describes really happened. The paper also examines the question of when human rights should outweigh cultural traditions. What may be a human rights violation may not be grounds for asylum in such cases.

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788776054076
    Weitere Identifier:
    hdl: 10419/44644
    Schriftenreihe: DIIS working paper ; 2010:25
    Schlagworte: Menschenrechte; Asylrecht; Migrationspolitik
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  2. Rejecting refugees
    political asylum in the 21st century
    Autor*in: Bohmer, Carol
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    02.A.7699
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    Institut für Theologie und Frieden, Bibliothek
    pol/I/2330
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    A/478526
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780415773751; 041577375X; 9780415773768; 0415773768; 9780203937228; 0203937228
    Weitere Identifier:
    2007016952
    Schlagworte: Political refugees; Political refugees; Asylum, Right of; Vertreibung/Flucht/Flüchtlinge; Asyl; England/Großbritannien; USA/United States of America/Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika; expulsion/flight/refugees; asylum; England/Great Britain; USA/United States of America
    Umfang: XI, 288 S
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    No more huddled masses -- The system -- Are you who you say you are -- Did this really happen to you? : the problem of credibility -- Politics gets personal : what counts as persecution -- The personal is political : taking gender into account