Katrijn Maryns

The Asylum Speaker (eBook, ePUB)

Language in the Belgian Asylum Procedure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on first-hand ethnographic data, field interviews with interpreters, interviewers and decision-makers, observations and off-record comments, The Asylum Speaker examines discursive processes in the asylum procedure and the impact these processes may have on the determination of refugee status

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317641704
• Artikelnr.: 41066060

Autorenporträt

Katrijn Maryns studied English and Dutch at the University of Ghent. She collected and analyzed data on African English in Sierra Leonean refugee camps and continued fieldwork at the Belgian asylum agencies in Brussels. She worked as a research associate of the National Science Foundation-Flanders and conducted her PhD research on bureaucratic encounters in the Belgian asylum procedure at the Department of African Languages and Cultures of Ghent University. Her research interests include linguistic diversity, multilingualism and the relationship between language and social identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Text Trajectories
2. Linguistic Diversity
3. Rehearsed Narratives
4. Discussion
References
Annexes
Index