Identities on Trial in the United States

Identities on Trial in the United States
Author: ChorSwang Ngin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498574742

ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate of Islam, several victims of ethnic and sexual violence from Indonesia, and the escape of men and women from China’s draconian one-child policy, among others. Joann Yeh, an immigration attorney and contributor to this work, examines asylum seeking in a Mandarin-speaking Californian community and discuss the failure of the United States' quasi-judicial immigration system, highlighting "asylum lawfare" in courtroom dramas and arguing for an anthropological advantage in asylum preparation. This book is an essential text for policy makers, students, lawyers, activists, and those engaged with migration studies seeking a more just asylum outcome.

Identities on Trial in the United States

Identities on Trial in the United States
Author: Chorswang Ngin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498574754

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 ca...

Suspect Identities

Suspect Identities
Author: Simon A. COLE
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674029682

"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing"--Jacket.

Identity in Narrative

Identity in Narrative
Author: Anna De Fina
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729612X

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.