Chorswang Ngin

Identities on Trial in the United States

Asylum Seekers from Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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Produktdetails

• Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781498574730
• ISBN-10: 1498574734
• Artikelnr.: 52643865

Autorenporträt

By ChorSwang Ngin - Foreword by David W. Haines - Contributions by Joann Yeh

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Persecution on Account of Race and Nationality Chapter 1: I Don't
Need your Bones to Know your Race Chapter 2: How Much Chinese Should a
Chinese be? Chapter 3: Racialization and Persecution Chapter 4: A Student
Protester from a Myanmar Prison Part II: Persecution on Account of Religion
Chapter 5: A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian Pastor Chapter 6:
 Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or A Field of Grass? (Co-authored
with Joann Yeh) Chapter 7:  An Apostate from Indonesia: A Convert from
Islam to Catholicism Part III: Persecution on Account of Membership of a
Particular Group Chapter 8: Ethnographic Details as Evidence on Rape and
Pregnancy Chapter 9: Without Evidence and Without Witness Chapter 10: Dowry
Dispute: A Case for the Law Firm of Seyfarth Shaw Part IV: Persecution on
Account of Political Opinion Chapter 11: A Filial Daughter's Love of Falun
Gong Exercises Chapter 12: Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous Claim
Chapter 13: Double Tragedy: Mr. Song's Humiliation or Embarrassment? Part
V: Law and Anthropology Chapter 14: Article I Courts in a World of
Uncertainties (Co-authored with Joann Yeh) Chapter 15:  An Anthropologist
in the Courtroom (Co-authored with Joann Yeh)