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dc.contributor.authorEades, Dianaen
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-01T13:53:00Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.citationApplied Linguistics, 26(4), p. 503-526en
dc.identifier.issn1477-450Xen
dc.identifier.issn0142-6001en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1332-
dc.description.abstractWhen asylum seekers flee persecution or war in their home countries, they often arrive in a new country seeking asylum, without documentation that can prove their nationality. They are thus open to the accusation that they are not actually fleeing persecution and/or war, but they are from another country and they are merely seeking ‘a better life’. Indeed, among those who seek asylum there may well be some such people. Anyone arriving in such a way without a genuine fear of persecution in their home country cannot qualify for refugee status. In order to test nationality claims of asylum seekers, a number of governments are using ‘language analysis,’ based on the assumption that the way that a person speaks contains clues about their origins. While linguists would not dispute this assumption, they are disputing a number of other assumptions, as well as practices, involved in this form of linguistic identification. This paper presents recent developments in this area of applied linguistics, including the release of Guidelines by a group of linguists concerning the use of language analysis in such asylum seeker cases. It concludes with discussion of the role of applied linguistics in questions of national origin.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Linguisticsen
dc.titleApplied Linguistics and Language Analysis in Asylum Seeker Casesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/applin/ami021en
dc.subject.keywordsApplied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
local.contributor.firstnameDianaen
local.subject.for2008200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
local.subject.seo751005 Communication across languages and culturesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Psychologyen
local.profile.emaildeades2@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:3182en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage503en
local.format.endpage526en
local.identifier.scopusid27944476039en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume26en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.contributor.lastnameEadesen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:deades2en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1362en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleApplied Linguistics and Language Analysis in Asylum Seeker Casesen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorEades, Dianaen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2005en
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