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8 - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

Anthea Vogl
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Sydney
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The Conclusion returns to the book’s central questions and arguments. It considers the implications of the book’s findings for the conduct of oral hearings within RSD, and the impossibility of a just assessment of refugee applicants’ oral testimony against the current credibility criteria. While the aim of the book was not to advance precise reforms to RSD, in reflecting on what suggestions for reform arise, the Conclusion argues that if oral hearing must be a narrative occasion, it should be a more predictable one. Where applicants’ evidence is expected to fit within cognisable narrative forms, the hearing should provide the opportunity to meet these standards. However, such a reform would do nothing to address the narrative mandate traced and critiqued throughout the book. Finally, the Conclusion explores and holds open the possibility for certain texts and genres to present radical ways of imagining refugee narratives outside the strictures of refugee law, RSD and the extreme demands (and limits) currently placed on the testimony of refugee applicants.

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Judging Refugees
Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
, pp. 154 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Anthea Vogl, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Book: Judging Refugees
  • Online publication: 15 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912402.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Anthea Vogl, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Book: Judging Refugees
  • Online publication: 15 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912402.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Anthea Vogl, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Book: Judging Refugees
  • Online publication: 15 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912402.009
Available formats
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