Board #11 - Language and the Politics of Credibility in U.S. Asylum Courts

• In Event: 72-302 - Poster Session: Identity, Meaning, and Attitudes Toward Immigration

Brief Overview

This study looks at how interpretation and Arabic dialect differences affect credibility in U.S. asylum courts using EOIR and TRAC data linked with linguistic research on dialect distance.

Author

• Hedaya Hassanein, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign