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

dc.authorid0000-0001-8857-9616
dc.contributor.authorYıldız, Uğur
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-02T06:11:41Z
dc.date.available2024-08-02T06:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi
dc.description.abstractRhoda Kanaaneh's book ‘The Right Kind of Suffering’ examines the asylum narratives of Arab asylum applicants who seek a safe haven in the United States. It focuses on applicants claiming asylum based on their gender or sexuality, or what the UNHCR document refers to as fear of persecution due to membership in a particular social group. The book recounts the struggle, but strategic asylum experiences of a few Arab men and women from different backgrounds and countries of origin. The asylum experiences presented in the book are strategic in a sense that each applicant memorizes what to say and learns how to behave so as to be granted refugee in this bureaucratic asylum game. Using an ethnographic approach, Kanaaneh's book unveils the ebbs and flows of asylum processes and hardships experienced during the process. Kanaaneh's voluntary job as an Arabic interpreter when she was an anthropology graduate student created a path for her to meet with both Arab asylum applicants and the structures of the immigration–asylum system. Based on over a decade of research and meetings with hundreds of asylum seekers, Kanaaneh narrates the experiences of four Arab asylum seekers—Suad from Sudan, Fadi from Jordan, Fatima from Egypt and Marwa from Lebanon. The selection of these four applicants represents ‘luckier asylum applicants’ who ‘are eligible for asylum’ following their arrival in the USA with their tourist visa (p. 2). The author emphasizes the urgent need to ‘humanize asylum seekers’ from the Middle East and explains the reason of focusing on these lucky four applicants (p. 3). Accordingly, as the author highlights, even applicants who are eligible for asylum have had difficult and suffering bureaucratic experiences prior to the Trump administration's downturn, which worsens the conditions of asylum applicants in particular and demonizes immigrants from the Middle East region in general (p. 3).
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/imig.13248
dc.identifier.endpage250en_US
dc.identifier.issn0020-7985
dc.identifier.issn1468-2435
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage250en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps:/dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.13248
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12451/12300
dc.identifier.volume62en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Migration
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.subjectThe Right Kind of Suffering
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectSexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers
dc.titleThe Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in America.
dc.typeOther

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