Refugee Status Determination in Brazil
Enacting Injustice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8134116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Flávia Rodrigues De Castro (0000-0001-9951-5271, Naval War College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1556-2948 • E-ISSN: 1556-2956 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15562948.2026.2629337 |
| OpenAlex | W7128907027 |
| Language | DE |
| References cited | 33 |
Credibility assessment is a central component of refugee status determination (RSD), yet its relationship to the enactment of injustice—particularly with respect to knowledge production—remains insufficiently examined. This article investigates how credibility assessments marginalise asylum seekers as subjects of knowledge and contribute to epistemic injustice. Drawing on epistemic injustice theory, the analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with decision-making actors in Brazil. The findings suggest that refugee status determination is not merely declaratory, but is constituted through epistemic practices that systematically marginalise applicants’ knowledge, making the granting or denial of asylum contingent upon the enactment of epistemic injustice.
Economic Justice · Immigration · Injustice · Racism · Refugee · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Epistemic Justice and a Role for Virtue in the Politics of Knowing
Some Varieties of Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic Justice as a Virtue of Social Institutions
Common Burdens and Standards
The Beleaguered Gatekeeper
Questions of Credibility
Refugee Status Determinations and the Limits of Memory
Illusions of objectivity
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
Beyond the Law
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Refugee status determination conducted by UNHCR
Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law
A Atuação da Sociedade Civil no Processo Brasileiro de Refúgio
The Relevance of Credibility Excess in a Proportional View of Epistemic Injustice
The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood
Epistemic Injustice
Granting asylum or not? Migration board personnel's beliefs about deception
Representing Trauma
Emotional Bureaucracies
Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief
The Politics of Credibility
The epistemic logic of asylum screening
| Highly cited | No |
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