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  1. Narrating atrocity
    uses of evidence in the political asylum process
    Author: Shuman, Amy; Bohmer, Carol
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  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... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788776054076
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/44644
    Series: DIIS working paper ; 2010:25
    Subjects: Menschenrechte; Asylrecht; Migrationspolitik
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 21 S., 210 KB)
  2. Rejecting refugees
    political asylum in the 21st century
    Author: Bohmer, Carol
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    02.A.7699
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    Institut für Theologie und Frieden, Bibliothek
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    pol/I/2330
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    A/478526
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780415773751; 041577375X; 9780415773768; 0415773768; 9780203937228; 0203937228
    Other identifier:
    2007016952
    Subjects: 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
    Scope: 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