The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America

by Rhoda Kanaaneh

Book Overview

Winner -- 2024 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Academic Award, The Arab American National Museum

An examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.

From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the "right" kind of victim, the asylum system in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477326723
• ISBN13: 9781477326725
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"