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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
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Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David W. Haines -- Introduction : the asylum seeker as the anthropological figure of the twenty-first century -- I don't need your bones to know your race -- How much Chinese should a Chinese be? -- Racialization and persecution -- A student protester from a Myanmar prison -- A Buddhist monk, a Catholic woman, a Christian pastor -- Did Jesus walk through a field of wheat or a field of grass? / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An apostate from Indonesia : a convert from Islam to Catholicism -- Ethnographic details as evidence on rape and pregnancy -- Without evidence and without witness -- Dowry dispute : a case for the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw -- A filial daughter's love of Falun Gong exercises -- Her forced abortion was a frivolous claim -- Double tragedy : Mr. Song's humiliation or embarrassment? -- Article I courts in a world of uncertainties / co-authored with Joann Yeh -- An anthropologist in the courtroom / co-authored with Joann Yeh. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Asylum, Right of -- United States.
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Asylum, Right of. |
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United States. |
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Asians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Asians -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Asians. |
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Immigration enforcement -- United States.
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Immigration enforcement. |
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Administrative courts -- United States.
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Administrative courts. |
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Forensic anthropology -- United States.
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Forensic anthropology. |
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LAW / Constitutional. |
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LAW / Public. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yeh, Joann, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ngin, ChorSwang. Identities on trial in the United States Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498574730 (DLC) 2018022615 |
| ISBN |
9781498574747 (eBook) |
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1498574742 |
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9781498574730 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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