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Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings

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Vogl, Anthea. Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2024.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2025

Dagmar Rita Myslinska
Dagmar Rita Myslinska*
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College of Law, Stetson University, Gulfport, FL, USA
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Email: dmyslinska@law.stetson.edu
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , May 2025 , pp. 635 - 642
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Bar Foundation

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