Interpreting narratives of no return : Canadian asylum claim decisions and the emergence of the “anti-refugee”
This thesis argues that, firstly, in reading asylum claim decisions, the search for the claimant’s “narrative” must end and a search for its “interpretation” by adjudicators must begin. In endorsing such an “interpretive turn,” I seek to understand how conceptual and discursive formulations of “the...
Main Author: | Demian, Diana Nasr |
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58857 |
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