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5-0905
POLITICAL ASYLUM AND THE POLITICS OF SUSPICION
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Reviewed By: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Saturday, December 6, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:15 PM

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students
Organizers:  Bridget M Haas (Case Western Reserve University) and Amy E Shuman (Ohio State University)
Chairs:  Heath Cabot (College of the Atlantic)
Discussants:  Marco Jacquemet (University of San Francisco)
2:30 PM
Refugees, Economic Migrants, and Enlightened False Consciousness: Working the Asylum System in Israel
Ilil Naveh-Benjamin (Cornell University)
2:45 PM
Troubling the Ethics of Asylum in the Age of Suspicion: The Iraq War and the Politics of Obligation
Nadia El-Shaarawi (Duke University)
3:00 PM
“It’s an FGM Case Now!”: Narrative ‘Translation’ As Strategic Maneuvering
Bridget M Haas (Case Western Reserve University)
3:15 PM
"They Wanted Me to Prove That I'm a Lesbian, but They Wouldn't Tell Me How I Could": Lesbian Invisibility and Erasure in the Political Asylum Process
Rachel Lewis (George Mason University)
3:30 PM
Political Asylum Narratives: Learning to Reconstruct Narratives for Contexts of Interrogation
Amy E Shuman (Ohio State University)
3:45 PM
Discussant
Marco Jacquemet (University of San Francisco)
4:00 PM
Discussion
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