Language has a home
How Case Officers Make Use of Language Analysis in Asylum Decisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3630286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Hedlund (0000-0003-3157-0279), Anna Åhlund (0000-0003-4862-0009) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1578-1595 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1762552 |
| OpenAlex | W3024575042 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
This article explores the ways in which the results of language analyses were taken into account when Swedish Migration Agency (SMA) case officers built arguments concerning unaccompanied children’s countries of origin. The research literature on LADO has primarily commented on risks of unreliability. Data was drawn from one calendar year of asylum decisions concerning unaccompanied children, and the sample where LADO had been conducted was analysed by qualitative thematic analysis. The main finding indicates that LADO is primarily used as an enhancer of other circumstances present in the asylum case, which means that it has the potential to “tip the scales” into approval or rejection. The findings also suggest that case officers use the results of LADO in different ways to regulate the issue of credibility depending on the political and geographical dynamics in the children’s reported countries of origin. The practical implications are that migration authorities should regularly examine to what extent the results of LADO are given weight in asylum case processing and that the influence of LADO results on individual decisions should be comprehensively explained in child consequence analyses
Agency (philosophy · Credibility · Perception · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Refugee · Sample (material · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (Lado)
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
The Handbook of Language Socialization
Lado as a Language Test
Applied Linguistics and Language Analysis in Asylum Seeker Cases
Political Asylum Deceptions
Duly verified? Language analysis in UK asylum applications of Syrian refugees
What is the role of expertise in Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (Lado)? A rejoinder to Cambier-Langeveld
Identifying the asylum speaker
Democratic assessment as an alternative
Junk Science? Four Arguments against the Radiological Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum
Where Do We Go From Here? Challenges and Strategies Following Additional Asylum Policy Restrictions in Sweden
Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality
Unaccompanied Children Claiming Asylum on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Language tests and human rights
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Language has a heart
Stylizations and alignments in a L2 classroom
Language, Asylum, and the National Order
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |