Awards

• Winner of OHA Book Award, Oral History Association 2023

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Bishop highlights the problematic ways in which the legal structures for assessing asylum claims ignore, misinterpret, and otherwise skew the narratives asylum seekers must share to qualify for asylum and how this can perpetuate trauma and result in asylum denials of people who should qualify. Bishop provides a unique perspective to this vital discourse. -- Beth Caldwell, Southwestern Law School

Bishop highlights the problematic ways in which the legal structures for assessing asylum claims ignore, misinterpret, and otherwise skew the narratives asylum seekers must share to qualify for asylum and how this can perpetuate trauma and result in asylum denials of people who should qualify. Bishop provides a unique perspective to this vital discourse. -- Beth Caldwell, Southwestern Law School Bishop invites us into the room where asylum decisions are made. A Story to Save Your Life is a disturbing account of how everyone from asylum seekers to judges tries to communicate across cultural and bureaucratic barriers in a messy process where the consequences of misinterpretation are devastating. -- David Scott FitzGerald, author of <i>Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers</i>

Author Information

Sarah C. Bishop is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is on the board of directors of Mixteca Organization, a nonprofit that supports immigrant communities in Brooklyn, and she serves as an expert witness in U.S. asylum hearings. She is the author of Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement (2019) and U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories (2016).

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