Troubled communication: cross-cultural misunderstandings in the asylum-hearing ( refugees).

International Migration Review
Volume 20, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 230-241

Troubled communication: cross-cultural misunderstandings in the asylum-hearing ( refugees). (Article)

Kalin W.

^a Univ. of Bern, Switzerland., Switzerland

Abstract

Demonstrates how misunderstandings rooted in the differences between the asylum-seeker's and the official's cultural background can seriously distort the process of communication during the asylum-hearing and thus impair the ability of refugees from Third World countries to make their asylum-claims credible. -Author

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DOI: 10.2307/2546033

ISSN: 01979183

Cited by: 51

Original Language: English