The texture of narrative dilemmas: qualitative study in front-line professionals working with asylum seekers in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and method

Asylum seekers are required to narrate past experiences to the UK Home Office, doctors, lawyers and psychologists as part of their claims for international protection. The Home Office often cites perceived inconsistencies in asylum interviews as grounds for refusal of their claims. A number of processes affect asylum seekers' abilities to narrate past experiences fully to the professionals interviewing them. The dilemmas around disclosure that asylum seekers face have received little attention to date. This work aims to explore the perspectives of UK-based medico-legal report-writing doctors, lawyers and psychologists whose work involves eliciting narratives from asylum seekers on the processes that affect asylum seekers' abilities to disclose sensitive personal inf

SUBMITTER: Abbas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8058859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature