Identities on Trial in the United States
Identities on Trial in the United States

Author: ChorSwang Ngin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-08-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1498574742

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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

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781498574754

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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

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0674029682

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"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

Published: 2003-10-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 902729612X

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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.