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Humanities and social change / Early, Gerald

Early, Gerald	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	The mere exercise of reading the text as it really is will make the reader moral and wise in a direct way that no systemic body of dogmatic teaching can rival ...The real point of close reading is that it produces the right sort of person-a person of evident worth.

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Social Change ; Humanities ; Immigration Law ; American Citizenship ; Postwar

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ID: 154890

Immigration law and the politics of migration in Greece / Mavrikos-Adamou, Tina

Mavrikos-Adamou, Tina	Journal Article
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There remains a void between the legal framework of immigration in Greece and its implementation. The essay explores this theme, first by providing an overview of Greek legislative acts and immigration laws from 1991 to 2015. This discussion is then placed within the Greek political arena by focusing on three political parties in Greece that have espoused anti-immigrant rhetoric. The essay concludes with suggestions of ways in which reconciliation can occur between Greek immigration law and the political environment

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Greece ; Immigration Law ; Politics of Migration

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ID: 080329

Producing epistemologies of ignorance in the political asylum a / Bohmer, Carol; Shuman, Amy

Bohmer, Carol	Journal Article
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2007.

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The granting of political asylum is implicated in other often competing agendas and discourses, including national security, the obligation to provide safe haven, the histories of past immigrants and asylum seekers, and the criminalization of people who cross borders illegally, for whatever motive. Political asylum serves two sometimes contradictory ends: protection of the state and refuge for the applicant. This contradiction is at the root of the production of ignorance in a process that overtly seeks to generate knowledge. Restricted access to knowledge is part of persecution both as a form of control, and in the classification of knowledge as illicit, covert, or traitorous. We examine the conditions for producing knowledge and ignorance in the political asylum process in which the stories presented by applicants are evaluated by bureaucrats to determine whether they are credible and whether they meet the criteria of a well-founded fear of return to the homeland. We discuss narratives told by both asylum seekers in the United States and the United Kingdom and those who help them through the asylum process

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Political Asylum ; Narrative ; Immigration Law ; Trauma

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