The Work of Expert Testimony: Central Americans, Human Rights Defenders, and Immigration Courts

Anthropologists have worked in legal arenas as experts on civil, criminal, and asylum cases throughout the history of the discipline. Today expert witnesses give opinions on the conditions of countries where immigrants flee, and that work includes ethnographic interviewing, research into the causes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allan F. Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kennesaw State University 2020-04-01
Series:Maya America
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mayaamerica/vol2/iss1/15/