Credibility Assessments as 'Normative Leakage': Asylum Applications, Gender and Class

Based on the assumption that credibility assessments function as 'normative leakage' within the asylum process, we analyse how narratives of gender and class are articulated, rendered meaningful, or silenced in credibility assessments. Two cases concerning male applicants are selected in o...

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Authors: Wikström, Hanna (Author) ; Johansson, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cogitatio Press 2013
In: Social Inclusion
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 92-101
Further subjects:B Case study
B asylum process
B credibility assessments
B Postcolonial
B Norms
B Class
B Gender
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