Asylum Claims and the Translation of Culture into Politics From: Texas International Law Journal | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc. Summer 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Since the early 1990s, we have witnessed how the system of asylum law reacts to the relativization of the nation-state in the global domain. The growing emphasis on cultural aspects in the conceptualization of "being persecuted" has stressed the dimension of positive obligations. This emphasis has widened the discretionary margin of decision makers. The substantive vacuum at the "human rights core" of the concept of "being persecuted" is a precondition for processes of acculturation through the asylum procedure. In asylum decisions, constructions of a particular cultural identity are ...

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