Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-12-2000
ISSN
0953-8186
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
This article examines the stereotyping of Islam both by advocates and academics in refugee rights advocacy. The article looks at a particular aspect of this stereotyping, which can be seen as ‘neo-Orientalism’ occurring in the asylum and refugee context, particularly affecting women, and the damage that it does to refugee rights both in and outside the Arab and Muslim world. The article points out the dangers of neo-orientalism in framing refugee law issues, and asks for a more thoughtful and analytical approach by Western refugee advocates and academics on the panoply of Muslim attitudes and Islamic thought affecting applicants for asylum and refugee status in the West.
Recommended Citation
Susan M. Akram,
Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims
,
in
12
International Journal of Refugee Law
7
(2000).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1512
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