Introduction

ESRC LADO Network

The ESRC LADO Network is a network of researchers established through the UK Economic and Social Research Council grant no. RES-451-26-0911 to Prof. Peter L. Patrick of the University of Essex Dept. of Language & Linguistics and Human Rights Centre, in order to conduct a series of Research Seminars. The theme is "Language Analysis of Asylum Applicants: Foundations, Guidelines & Best Practice", and the meetings are to be held in 2011-12 at the University of Essex.

Participant Biography

Dr. Carol Bohmer

Carol Bohmer, a lawyer and sociologist, is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College, a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Coalition, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and a Teaching Fellow at King’s College, London.  She has worked extensively in the area of law and society, examining the way legal and social institutions interact, both in the United States and abroad.  She also does pro bono legal work for asylum seekers.  Her most recent  relevant publications are: “Trauma and Forgetting: Producing Epistemologies of Ignorance in the Political Asylum Process”, with Amy Shuman,  Identities 14: 1-27 (2007), and “Contradictory Discourses of Protection and Control in Transnational Asylum Law” with Amy Shuman in Journal of Legal Anthropology, Vol 1:2 (2010).  Her most recent book is Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the Twenty-First Century with Amy Shuman (Routledge, 2007), a comparative study of the asylum process in the US and the UK. She is a member of LARG.

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