The Role of Expert Witnesses in the Adjudication of Religious and Culture-based Asylum Claims in the United Kingdom
The Case Study of ‘Witchcraft’ Persecution
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7213776 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Katia Bianchini (0000-0002-2341-7381, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 3793-3819 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-02-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0951-6328 • E-ISSN: 1471-6925 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrs/feab020 |
| OpenAlex | W3132668824 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 37 |
This article examines the role of cultural expertise in asylum judicial decisions in the UK by focusing on witchcraft-based persecution. The case study highlights multiple challenges to decision-making created by religious and cultural diversity, and the ensuing problems of assessing unfamiliar facts and beliefs against the often lack of corroborating evidence. Drawing on legal sources and a small number of anthropological studies, as well as analyses of judicial decisions, the article discusses how the unique characteristics of witchcraft cases, with their unfamiliar paradigms, are illustrative of the need to analyse and understand asylum claims within their broad cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts. The article exposes how cultural expertise assists judges in appreciating specific contexts and curbing their Eurocentric understanding of culture and religion, and shapes the final outcome of cases
Adjudication · Criminology · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Legal culture · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Sex work and related issues
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| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |