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