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African Asylum At A Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, And Refugee Rights, Iris Berger, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony.

Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise …

Berita Special Spring Issue 2015, Timothy P. Daniels

Berita

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword...2

Members’ Updates...4

Special Articles Modernities Through Art and Design: Printing Press as a Resource of Examining Penang’s Modernity by Sarena Abdullah...6

Malaysia's New “Culture of Entrepreneurship”: Bumiputera Agendas and Dilemmas by Sarah Kelman...19

Meanings of Traditional Textiles Consumption in Brunei Darussalam by Siti Norkhalbi Haji Wahsalfelah...27

Book Reviews....40

Berita Autumn 2015, Eric C. Thompson

Berita

Table of Contents

Chair’s Address ... 2

Editor’s Foreword ...3

John A. Lent Prize ...4

Ronald Provencher Travel Award ...5

Rabbits or rebels? Making sense of Singapore’s 2015 elections ...6

Greening the glass ceiling? Shaping of Malaysian women’s Shariah expertise as global Islamic financial expertise...10

Mr. Teh-o-ais kurang manis...17

Review of the Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies Library ... 21

Association for Asian Studies 2016 (Seattle) – Panels with Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei Content ... 23