Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Story to Save Your LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for AsylumISBN-10: 0231204086EAN: 9780231204088ISBN: 9780231204088Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/16/2022Description: Winner, 2023 OHA Book Award, Oral History AssociationA young woman flees violence in Mexico and seeks protection in the United States—only to be trafficked as a domestic worker in the Bronx. A decorated immigration judge leaves his post when the policies he proudly upheld capsize in the wake of political turmoil. A Gambian translator who was granted asylum herself talks with other African women about how immigration officers expect victims of torture to behave. A border patrol officer begins to question the training that instructs him to treat the children he finds in the Arizona desert like criminals.Through these and other powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United States. Sarah C. Bishop argues that cultural differences in communication shape every stage of the asylum process, playing a major but unexamined role. Migrants fleeing persecution must reconstruct the details of their lives so governmental authorities can determine whether their experiences justify protection. However, Bishop shows, many factors influence whether an applicant is perceived as credible, from the effects of trauma on the ability to recount an experience chronologically to culturally rooted nonverbal behaviors and displays of emotion. For asylum seekers, harnessing the power of autobiographical storytelling can mean the difference between life and death. A Story to Save Your Life emphasizes how memory, communication, and culture intertwine in migrants’ search for safety.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Sarah BishopGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Story to Save Your Life
Title: A Story to Save Your Life
Subtitle: Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for Asylum
ISBN-10: 0231204086
EAN: 9780231204088
ISBN: 9780231204088
Release Date: 08/16/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Story to Save Your Life : Communication and Culture in Migrants' Search for Asylum
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Public Policy / Immigration, Communication Studies, Emigration & Immigration
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Sarah Bishop
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
