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The Asylum Speaker - Language in the Belgian Asylum Procedure (Hardcover)
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The Asylum Speaker - Language in the Belgian Asylum Procedure (Hardcover)
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Drawing on first-hand ethnographic data, field interviews with
interpreters, interviewers and decision-makers, observations and
off-record comments, The Asylum Speaker examines discursive
processes in the asylum procedure and the impact these processes
may have on the determination of refugee status. The book starts
from the assumption that far-reaching legal decisions often have to
be made on very limited grounds. Unable to submit any evidence to
substantiate their case, the only chance that many asylum seekers
have is to argue their case during the oral hearings with public
officials at the different asylum agencies. Maryns investigates the
performance of the asylum seeker during these interviews and
analyzes the relationship between narrative structuring and
gradations of linguistic competence. She explores a number of
related questions: first, how the interaction between applicants
and public officials proceeds; second, how this interaction forms
the discursive input into long and complicated textual
trajectories, and third, how the outcome of these discursive
processes affects the assessment of asylum applications. Maryns
demonstrates how propositional aspects play a crucial role in the
asylum procedure whereas little attention is paid to
narrative-linguistic diversity and multilingual speaker
repertoires. Her analysis reveals how insufficient insight into the
linguistic structure and narrative features of the asylum account
often results in a deficient processing of important details.
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