'How to recognise a refugee', in the series Senior Research Symposium, will be held on Monday 29 May at 17:30 at the Faculty of Arts Library University of Malta Msida Campus.
The speaker is Dr Barbara Sorgoni (University of Turin).
This seminar is being organised by the Department of Anthropological Studies at the Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Laws.
Abstract
In this Seminar Dr Sargoni wishes to explore the Refugee Status Determination Procedure (RSDP) as it has recently evolved at a European level, with particular attention to the specificities of the Italian context. Focusing on the credibility issue as a 'quasi-legal category', she argues that this tool has been gaining progressively more weight in the procedure, vis-脿-vis the evaluation of other types of material evidence or documents.
Dr Sargoni will refer to some ethnographic cases from my field-research in north-east Italy to show how a determination procedure for international protection based on the credibility assessment of the mere narrative of the asylum seeker can be productively used to easily reject applications, in line with national and supra-national politics of border control and rejection of migrants.
