Judging Refugees
Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23790728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthea Vogl (0000-0001-6327-0524, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Judging Refugees (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108912402 |
| OpenAlex | W4395090169 |
| ISBN | 9781108912402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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 archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the critical role played by the 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.
Political science · Refugee · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law
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| Citations per year | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |