A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants Search for Asylum Bishop Sarah C.
A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants Search for Asylum Bishop Sarah C. A young woman flees violence in Mexico and seeks protection in the United States-only to be…
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A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants Search for Asylum Bishop Sarah C.
A young woman flees violence in Mexico and seeks protection in the United States-only to be trafficked as a domestic worker in the Bronx. A Gambian translator who was granted asylum herself talks with other African women about how immigration officers expect victims of torture to behave. A decorated immigration judge leaves his post when the policies he proudly upheld capsize in the wake of political turmoil.
Bishop argues that cultural differences in communication shape every stage of the asylum process, playing a major but unexamined role. A border patrol officer begins to question the training that instructs him to treat the children he finds in the Arizona desert like criminals.Through these and other powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United States. Sarah C.