Examining Procedural Unfairness and Credibility Findings in the UK Asylum System

Campbell, John

Abstract

This article addresses a key problem confronted by immigration judges (IJs) in their assessment of the asylum claims of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children – who are often not allowed to speak or participate in their own hearings – namely the manner in which asylum legal procedure is intertwined with an IJ’s decision to refuse the claim on the basis of adverse credibility. This article has three linked aims: to examine research that looks at how IJs decide credibility; to set out an ethnographic approach to better understand IJs’ decision-making; and to argue that asylum tribunals need to adopt appropriate guidelines.

Citation

Campbell, J. (2020). Examining Procedural Unfairness and Credibility Findings in the UK Asylum System. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 39(1), 56-75. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdz017

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 10, 2019
• Publication Date: Jan 3, 2020
• Deposit Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Journal: Refugee Survey Quarterly
• Print ISSN: 1020-4067
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-695X
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-75
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdz017
• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article-abstract/39/1/56/5695638