The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America

by Rhoda Kanaaneh

Book Overview

From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the "right" kind of victim, the asylum system in the United States is an exacting and drawn-out immigration process that itself results in suffering. When anthropologist Rhoda Kanaaneh became a volunteer interpreter for Arab asylum seekers, she learned how applicants were pushed to craft specific narratives to satisfy the system's requirements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477326723
• ISBN13: 9781477326725
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"