African Asylum at a Crossroads, Activism; Expert Testimony; and Refugee Rights, Activism; Expert Testimony; and Refugee Rights

Year

2015

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-0-82142-138-3

Link

Last Update

28-Nov-2025

Keywords

Political Science ; Law

Description

THE EXPERIENCE OF the African asylum seeker is at a crossroads. From the 1960s to 1980s, asylum and refugee status was usually arbitrated by referencing government reports and data produced by the United Nations or other international or intergovernmental agencies. Today, many domestic asylum and refugee status determination procedures in the Global North—including those currently in operation in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia—no longer consider the impersonal or nonspecific nature of these data as constituting a solid or secure basis for individual claims. Increasingly, asylum host nations are developing sophisticated, secure data-collection agencies and...