Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law

McKinley, Michelle A.

doi:10.1525/pol.1997.20.2.70

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“…American Anthropologist ’s cross‐discipline virtual issue highlights Franz Boas's classic work on bodily plasticity (Boas ; Gravlee, Bernard, and Leonard ; Sparks and Jantz ), other classic essays on acculturation (Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits ) and urban experience (Mayer ), and (mostly) more recent commentary that prefigures many of the issues taken up this year, such as migrant temporality (Andersson ; Coutin ; Oka ), diasporic nationalism and other questions of belonging (Chavez ; Markowitz, Helman, and Shir‐Vertesh ; Thiranagama ; Vora ; Werner and Barcus ), and how borders and bodies are made to matter (De León ; Fassin and D'Halluin ; McGuire ); this virtual issue also includes several contributions from archaeologists that likewise resonate with work published this year (Anthony ; Cobb ; Monroe ). PoLAR ’s virtual issue highlights past work on the politics and law of migration, especially in relation to borders (Brenneis ; Cabot ; Chock ; Coutin ; Galemba ; Glenn‐Levin Rodriguez ; Goldstein ; Hoag ; Horton ; T. Kelly ; Kobelinsky ; McKinley ; Newendorp ; Sandvik ).…”

Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…For example, Nguyen (2010) describes how expression of a positive identity shaped access to rare antiretrovirals in the early days of West Africa's HIV epidemic. Similar accounts from Europe document the utility of such narratives of victimhood in which immigration rights are tied to experiences of trauma in refugee cases (Fassin and Rechtman 2009;McKinley 1997;Ticktin 1999) and for victims of human trafficking in particular (Giordano 2008; see also Dasgupta 2014). Here, though, in this very purposeful display of gratitude, there is little hint of any sort of victim identity.…”

Section: Miss Rosementioning

confidence: 89%

Governing with God: Religion, Resistance, and the State in Nigeria's Counter‐Trafficking Programs

Vanderhurst

2017

PoLAR

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Over the past fifteen years, the Nigerian government has stopped many young migrant women from trying to leave the country, identifying them as victims of human trafficking and referring them to a federal antitrafficking agency for protection and rehabilitation. Relatively few women accept these interventions outright, due in part to ingrained suspicion of state officials and institutions. This article uses ethnographic research from one state‐run shelter where these would‐be migrant women were detained to examine how state counselors there justified their actions and how migrant women interpreted them. Where the moral authority of the state has been depleted, it shows how shelter staff urged residents to find trust in government through trust in God, and how women in turn made claims on the state through religious idioms of conversion and salvation. Ultimately, it demonstrates how ad hoc relationships of governance are forged in one fervently contested encounter between citizens and the state in Nigeria.

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“…Asylum motives are often the main evidence on which asylum decisions are made (Kjaer 2001;Bohmer and Shuman 2010), and narrative approaches naturally have some history in the study of forced migration, particularly when conceived methodologically e.g. as the collection of life stories (Krulfeld and MacDonald 1998;McKinley 1997;Omidian 1994). Narrative approaches to the asylum process have usefully examined issues of credibility (Good 2007), emotion (Kobelinsky 2015), resistance (Smith 2015(Smith , 2016 and mistrust (Daniel and Knudsen 1995;Bohmer and Shuman 2008; see also Kobelinsky, this volume).…”

Section: A Narrative Approachmentioning

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Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court

Danstrøm

Whyte

2018

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

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In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates the ways in which asylum seekers and asylum lawyers present and re-present asylum narratives across two contrasting narrative contexts: Danish asylum centers (“camp” to asylum seekers) and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (“court” to asylum seekers). Distinguishing between “asylum motive” and “asylum talk”, or stories for and stories of asylum, we argue that context strongly shapes the kinds of asylum narratives that are presented and shared, but also that these kinds of narratives influence each other. We show that uncertainty, credibility and authorship are central both in the Danish asylum process and for the ways in which it is understood by the actors invested in it.

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Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Governing with God: Religion, Resistance, and the State in Nigeria's Counter‐Trafficking Programs

Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court

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