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.
Email: carolbohmer
Please add:
@gmail.com