Identities on Trial in the United States : Asylum Seekers from Asia.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Persecution on Account of Race and Nationality -- 1 I Don't Need Your Bones to Know Your Race -- 2 How Much Chinese Should a Chinese Be? -- 3 Racialization and Persecution -- 4 A Student Protester from a Myanmar Prison -- Part II Persecution on Account of Religion -- 5 A Buddhist Monk, a Catholic Woman, a Christian Pastor -- 6 Did Jesus Walk Through a Field of Wheat or a Field of Grass? -- 7 An Apostate from Indonesia: -- Part III Persecution on Account of Membership in a Particular Social Group -- 8 Ethnographic Details as Evidence of Rape and Pregnancy -- 9 Without Evidence and Without Witness -- 10 Dowry Dispute: -- Part IV Persecution on Account of Political Opinion -- 11 A Filial Daughter's Devotion to Falun Gong Practice -- 12 Her Forced Abortion was a Frivolous Claim -- 13 Mr. Sung's Embarrassment or Humiliation? -- Part V Law and Anthropology -- 14 Article I Court in a World of Uncertainties -- 15 There is an Anthropologist in the Courtroom -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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 cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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