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Annals of Anthropological Practice
- Issue Information | Volume 46, Issue 1 (free access)
- On Witnessing, Standing with, and Collaborating: Thoughts on Expertise, Knowledge Production, and the Ethics of Compensation
Jordan Levy - Enabling or Subverting Legal Violence? Expert Witnesses in Immigration Proceedings
Lauren Heidbrink - Using Theory and Ethnography for Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gendered Violence
Lynn Stephen - From Quantitative Fact to Discursive Practice: Techniques for Asserting the Reliability of Anthropological Knowledge in Expert Testimony
Leila Rodriguez - Conclusion: General and Particular Challenges of Expert Witnessing
M. Gabriela Torres, Tatianna Staszkow - Dilemmas of Immigrant Asylum Claims for Expert Witnesses
Nathan P. Jones, Howard Campbell - Particular Social Group Trouble: Producing Categories of “Unworthy” Asylum Seekers
Amelia Frank-Vitale
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