4-0770 THE POLITICS OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Stacey L Vanderhurst (Brown University)

Chairs: Joao Velloso (University of Ottawa)

13:45

What Law Undertakes to Resolve and Tends to Create: How Victims Subject Positions Are Generated In Courts and Resonate In the Everyday Life of South African Victims of Apartheid-Era Human Rights Abuses

Rita Kesselring (University of Basel)

14:00

Interculturality and Legal Innovation: Establishing Marital Status In Sponsorship Appeals At the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Joao Velloso (University of Ottawa)

14:15

The Role of Anthropologists As Providers of ‘Country of Origin Information’ In British Asylum Courts

Anthony Good (University of Edinburgh)

14:30

Juvenile Delinquency and the "Sociological Excuse": When Social Workers In Contemporary France Resist to the Objectification of Inequalities

Sebastien Roux (CNRS)

14:45

Making Migrants Into Victims: Counter-Trafficking Programs and Migration Management In Nigeria

Stacey L Vanderhurst (Brown University)

15:00

The Objective and the Ad Hoc: Trying Political Asylum In US Immigration Courts

Brian A Watkins (Austin College)

15:15

Discussion

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