CredibilitySLR

Overview of included articles - Appendix 1

Authors	Title	Publication	Year	Object	Special group
Åberg, Karin	A Requirement of Shame: On the Evolution of the Protection of LGB Refugees	International Journal of Refugee Law	2023	Claimant	LGBT+
Affolter, Laura	Regular Matters: Credibility Determination and the Institutional Habitus in a Swiss Asylum Office	Comparative Migration Studies	2021	Claimant
Baillot, Helen; Cowan, Sharon; Munro, Vanessa E.	Seen but Not Heard? Parallels and Dissonances in the Treatment of Rape Narratives across the Asylum and Criminal Justice Contexts	Journal of Law and Society	2009	Claimant	Women
Baillot, Helen; Cowan, Sharon; Munro, Vanessa E.	Reason to Disbelieve: Evaluating the Rape Claims of Women Seeking Asylum in the UK	International Journal of Law in Context	2014	Both
Ballucci, Dale; Ghebrai, Sam	(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies	2023	Claimant	Children
Barton, Ana	A Turn for the Worse: Is There Any Hope for a Benefit of the Doubt Standard in Asylum Credibility Assessments Post-Real ID Act	Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy	2009	Testimony
Beard, Jennifer; Noll, Gregor	Parrhēsia and Credibility: The Sovereign of Refugee Status Determination	Social & Legal Studies	2009	Claimant
Blommaert, Jan	Language, Asylum, and the National Order	Current Anthropology	2009	Claimant
Bodström, Erna	Asylum Decisions as Performances: Intertextuality in Internal Credibility Assessment	International Journal of Refugee Law	2020	Testimony
Bohmer, Carol; Shuman, Amy	Producing Epistemologies of Ignorance in the Political Asylum Application Process	Identities	2007	Claimant	Political
Bradley, Liz; Farber, Hillary B.	Virtually Incredible: Rethinking Deference to Demeanor When Assessing Credibility in Asylum Cases Conducted by Video Teleconference	Georgetown Immigration Law Journal	2022	Claimant
Byrne, Rosemary	Assessing Testimonial Evidence in Asylum Proceedings: Guiding Standards from the International Criminal Tribunals	International Journal of Refugee Law	2007	Claimant
Cameron, Hilary Evans	Refugee Status Determinations and the Limits of Memory	International Journal of Refugee Law	2010	Claimant
Cameron, Hilary Evans	Risk and the Reasonable Refugee: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections	International Journal of Refugee Law	2023	Claimant
Cameron, Hilary Evans	Sin of Omission: Exploring a Key Credibility Inference in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections	Osgoode Hall Law Journal	2023	Claimant
Campbell, John R.	Examining Procedural Unfairness and Credibility Findings in the UK Asylum System	Refugee Survey Quarterly	2020	Testimony	Children
Coffey, Guy	The Credibility of Credibility Evidence at the Refugee Review Tribunal	International Journal of Refugee Law	2003	Claimant
Cohen, Juliet	Questions of Credibility: Omissions, Discrepancies and Errors of Recall in the Testimony of Asylum Seekers	International Journal of Refugee Law	2001	Testimony	PTSD
Conroy, Melanie A.	Real Bias: How REAL ID’s Credibility and Corroboration Requirements Impair Sexual Minority Asylum Applicants	Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice	2009	Both	LGBT+
Craig, Sarah; Gramling, David	Is There a Right to Untranslatability? Asylum, Evidence and the Listening State	Tilburg Law Review	2017	Testimony
de Bruïne, Gabi; Vredeveldt, Annelies; van Koppen, Peter J.	Culture and Credibility: The Assessment of Asylum Seekers’ Statements	Psychology, Crime & Law	2023	Testimony
Dowd, Rebecca; Hunter, Jill; Liddell, Belinda; McAdam, Jane; Nickerson, Angela; Bryant, Richard	Filling Gaps and Verifying Facts: Assumptions and Credibility Assessment in the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal	International Journal of Refugee Law	2018	Both
Dustin, Moira; Held, Nina	In or out? A Queer Intersectional Approach to “particular Social Group” Membership and Credibility in SOGI Asylum Claims in Germany and the UK	GenIUS - Rivista Di Studi Giuridici Sull’orientamento Sessuale e l’identità Di Genere	2018	Claimant	LGBT+
Ferreira, Nuno	Utterly Unbelievable: The Discourse of “Fake” SOGI Asylum Claims as a Form of Epistemic Injustice	International Journal of Refugee Law	2023	Claimant	LGBT+
Filone, Sarah; DeMatteo, David	Testimonial Inconsistencies, Adverse Credibility Determinations, and Asylum Adjudication in the United States	Translational Issues in Psychological Science	2017	Testimony
Forman, Daniel	Improving Asylum-Seeker Credibility Determinations: Introducing Appropriate Dispute Resolution Techniques into the Process	Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law	2008	Claimant
Galloni, Tania	Keeping It Real: Judicial Review of Asylum Credibility Determinations in the Eleventh Circuit after the REAL ID Act	University of Miami Law Review	2008	Testimony
Gerken, Christina	Credibility, Trauma, and the Law: Domestic Violence-Based Asylum Claims in the United States	Feminist Legal Studies	2022	Testimony	Women
Good, Anthony	“Undoubtedly an Expert”? Anthropologists in British Asylum Courts	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	2004	Testimony
Graham, Belinda; Herlihy, Jane; Brewin, Chris R.	Overgeneral Memory in Asylum Seekers and Refugees	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry	2014	Testimony	PTSD
Granhag, Pär; Strömwall, Leif; Hartwig, Maria	Granting Asylum or Not? Migration Board Personnel’s Beliefs about Deception	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies	2005	Claimant
Guarch-Rubio, Marta; Manzanero, Antonio L.	Credibility and Testimony in Asylum Procedures with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors	European Journal of Migration and Law	2020	Testimony	Children
Herlihy, Jane; Gleeson, Kate; Turner, Stuart	What Assumptions about Human Behaviour Underlie Asylum Judgments?	International Journal of Refugee Law	2010	Claimant
Herlihy, Jane; Turner, Stuart	Memory and Seeking Asylum	European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling	2007	Testimony	PTSD
Herlihy, Jane; Turner, Stuart	Untested Assumptions: Psychological Research and Credibility Assessment in Legal Decision-Making	European Journal of Psychotraumatology	2015	Claimant	PTSD; Women
Hertoghs, Maja; Schinkel, Willem	The State’s Sexual Desires: The Performance of Sexuality in the Dutch Asylum Procedure	Theory and Society	2018	Claimant	LGBT+
Holland, Madeline	Stories for Asylum: Narrative and Credibility in the United States’ Political Asylum Application	Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees	2018	Testimony
Hunter, Jill; Pearson, Linda; San Roque, Mehera	Mental Health Expertise in Refugee Status Decision-Making: Judging or Caring?	The International Journal of Evidence & Proof	2014	Claimant
Hunter, Jill; Pearson, Linda; San Roque, Mehera; Steel, Zac	Asylum Adjudication, Mental Health and Credibility Evaluation	Federal Law Review	2013	Claimant	PTSD
Jacquemet, Marco	Asylum and Superdiversity: The Search for Denotational Accuracy during Asylum Hearings	Language & Communication, The Social Life of Diversity Talk	2015	Testimony
Jobe, Alison	Telling the Right Story at the Right Time: Women Seeking Asylum with Stories of Trafficking into the Sex Industry	Sociology	2020	Claimant	Women
Johannesson, Livia	The Symbolic Life of Courts: How Judicial Language, Actions, and Objects Legitimize Credibility Assessments of Asylum Appeals	Journal of International Migration and Integration	2022	Claimant
Jubany, Olga	Constructing Truths in a Culture of Disbelief: Understanding Asylum Screening from Within	International Sociology	2011	Testimony
Kagan, Michael	Is Truth in the Eye of the Beholder - Objective Credibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination	Georgetown Immigration Law Journal	2002	Testimony
Kagan, Michael	Refugee Credibility Assessment and the Religious Imposter Problem: A Case Study of Eritrean Pentecostal Claims in Egypt	Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law	2010	Claimant	Religion
Kagan, Michael	Believable Victims: Asylum Credibility and the Struggle for Objectivity Culture & Society	Georgetown Journal of International Affairs	2015	Testimony
Kendall, Frances	“Catch-22”? : The Assessment of Credibility in UK Asylum Applications	New Sociological Perspectives	2022	Claimant
Kinchin, Niamh; Mougouei, Davoud	What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Refugee Status Determination? A Proposal for Removing Subjective Fear	International Journal of Refugee Law	2022	Testimony
Kobelinsky, Carolina	Judging Intimacies at the French Court of Asylum	PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review	2015	Claimant	LGBT+
Kochhar-George, Che Singh	Recent Developments in Hong Kong’s Torture Screening Process	Hong Kong Law Journal	2012	Testimony
Lewis, Rachel A.	“Gay? Prove It”: The Politics of Queer Anti-Deportation Activism	Sexualities	2014	Claimant	LGBT+
Liodden, Tone Maia	Who Is a Refugee? Uncertainty and Discretion in Asylum Decisions	International Journal of Refugee Law	2020	Testimony
Llewellyn, Cheryl	(In)Credible Violence: An Analysis of Post-Alvarado Domestic Violence Asylum Cases in the United States	Journal of Women, Politics & Policy	2020	Claimant	Women
Llewellyn, Cheryl	Erasing Violence: Lesbian Women Asylum Applicants in the United States	Journal of Lesbian Studies	2021	Testimony	LGBT+
Ludt, Charlotte; Bjørnholt, Margunn; Niklasson, Birgitta	Speaking the Unspeakable: Disclosures of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Asylum Credibility Assessments	Nordic Journal of Human Rights	2022	Testimony
Luker, Trish	Decision Making Conditioned by Radical Uncertainty: Credibility Assessment at the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal	International Journal of Refugee Law	2013	Testimony
Lunau, Marie	The Trouble with “Truth”. On the Politics of Life and Death in the Assessment of Queer Asylum Seekers	Kvinder, Køn & Forskning	2019	Claimant	LGBT+
MacIntosh, Constance	When “Feminist Beliefs” Became Credible as “Political Opinions”: Returning to a Key Moment in Canadian Refugee Law	Canadian Journal of Women and the Law	2005	Testimony	Political
Macklin, Audrey	Truth and Consequences: Credibility Determination in the Refugee Context	1998 International Association of Refugee Law Judges	1998	Testimony
Magalhães, Bruno	The Politics of Credibility: Assembling Decisions on Asylum Applications in Brazil	International Political Sociology	2016	Testimony
McDonald, Douglas	Credibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination	National Law School of India Review	2014	Claimant
McGuirk, Siobhán	(In)Credible Subjects: NGOs, Attorneys, and Permissible LGBT Asylum Seeker Identities	PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review	2018	Claimant	LGBT+
McKinnon, Sara L.	Citizenship and the Performance of Credibility: Audiencing Gender-Based Asylum Seekers in U.S. Immigration Courts	Text and Performance Quarterly	2009	Claimant	Women
Millbank, Jenni	From Discretion to Disbelief: Recent Trends in Refugee Determinations on the Basis of Sexual Orientation in Australia and the United Kingdom	The International Journal of Human Rights	2009	Claimant	LGBT+
Millbank, Jenni	“The Ring of Truth”: A Case Study of Credibility Assessment in Particular Social Group Refugee Determinations	International Journal of Refugee Law	2009	Claimant	LGBT+
Mosley, Alana	Re-Victimization and the Asylum Process: Jimenez Ferreira v. Lynch: Re-Assessing the Weight Placed on Credible Fear Interviews in Determining Credibility	Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality	2018	Testimony
Nielsen, Trine Rask, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, and Naja Holten Møller	Mobile Phone Data Transforming Casework in Asylum Decision-Making: Insights from the Danish Case	ACM Journal on Responsible Computing	2024	Testimony
Nielsen, Trine Rask, and Naja Holten Møller	Data as a Lens for Understanding What Constitutes Credibility in Asylum Decision-Making	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction	2022	Claimant
Norman, Steve	Assessing the Credibility of Refugee Applicants: A Judicial Perspective	International Journal of Refugee Law	2007	Testimony
O’Connell, Mary Kate	Closeted or Credible: How Misinterpretation of the REAL ID Act Prevents Closeted LGBTQ+ Applicants from Establishing Credible Asylum Claims Comments	American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law	2020	Both	LGBT+
Oosterveld, V.	Gender at the Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law	Journal of International Criminal Justice	2014	Testimony	Women
Oubad, Ismail, and Khalid Mouna	Certifying Credibility: Trajectory of Sub-Saharan Asylum Seekers in Italy	Fuori Luogo. Rivista Di Sociologia Del Territorio Turismo	2023	Testimony
Paskey, Stephen	Telling Refugee Stories: Trauma, Credibility and the Adversarial Adjudication of Claims for Asylum	Santa Clara Law Review	2016	Claimant
Pfeiffer, Neal P.	Credibility Findings in INS Asylum Adjudications: A Realistic Assessment Note	Texas International Law Journal	1988	Claimant
Piccolo, Sebastiano Antonio, Panagiota Katsikouli, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, and Tijs Slaats	On Predicting and Explaining Asylum Adjudication	Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law	2023	Claimant
Piotrowicz, Ryszard Wilson	Asylum Seekers, Good Faith and the State	International Journal on Minority and Group Rights	2013	Testimony
Raj, Senthorun	A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law	Journal of Intercultural Studies	2017	Claimant	LGBT+
Ramezankhah, Forough	The Tale of Two Men: Testimonial Styles in the Presentation of Asylum Claims	International Journal of Refugee Law	2017	Claimant
Rehaag, Sean	Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A Comparative Appraisal of Refugee Law and Policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia	The International Journal of Human Rights	2009	Claimant	LGBT+
Rehaag, Sean	I Simply Do Not Believe: A Case Study of Credibility Determinations in Canadian Refugee Adjudication	Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues	2017	Claimant
Rehaag, Sean, and Hilary Evans Cameron	Experimenting with Credibility in Refugee Adjudication: Gaydar	Canadian Journal of Human Rights	2020	Claimant	LGBT+
Reneman, Marcelle	Forensic Medical Reports in Asylum Cases: The View of the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee against Torture	Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights	2020	Testimony
Rieder, Lidia	Assessing Credibility in Conversion-Based Asylum Claims	International Journal for Religious Freedom	2022	Claimant	Religion
Rinaldi, Jen, and Shanti Fernando	Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants	Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees	2019	Claimant	LGBT+
Robathan, Lucie	At the Limits of Narrative. Unintelligibility and the (Im)Possibilities of Self-Disclosure in the Asylum Claiming Process	Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies	2022	Testimony
Roels, Lore	Rape Myths in the European Court of Human Rights’ Non-Refoulement Case Law on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	International Journal of Refugee Law	2023	Claimant	Women
Rogers, Hannah, Simone Fox, and Jane Herlihy	The Importance of Looking Credible: The Impact of the Behavioural Sequelae of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on the Credibility of Asylum Seekers	Psychology, Crime & Law	2015	Claimant	PTSD
Rose, Lena, and Zoe Given-Wilson	“What Is Truth?” Negotiating Christian Convert Asylum Seekers’ Credibility	The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science	2021	Both	Religion
Ruppel, Joanna	The Need for a Benefit of the Doubt Standard in Credibility Evaluation of Asylum Applicants	Columbia Human Rights Law Review	1991	Testimony
Sarangi, Ashish, Sabrina Deleon, Regina Baronia, Rosalinda Jimenez, and Yasin Ibrahim	Severe Post-Traumatic Disorder Leading to Failure of Passing Asylum Interview—a Case Report	Middle East Current Psychiatry	2021	Claimant	PTSD
Selberg, Johanna	Truth and Trauma: Exploring the Merits of Non-Adversarial Asylum Hearings	Georgetown Immigration Law Journal	2021	Testimony
Selim, Hedayat, Korkman, Julia, Nynäs, Peter, Pirjatanniemi, Elina, and Jan Antfolk	A Review of Psycho-Legal Issues in Credibility Assessments of Asylum Claims Based on Religion	Psychiatry, Psychology and Law	2023	Testimony	Religion
Selim, Hedayat, Julia Korkman, Elina Pirjatanniemi, and Jan Antfolk	Asylum Claims Based on Sexual Orientation: A Review of Psycho-Legal Issues in Credibility Assessments	Psychology, Crime & Law	2022	Claimant	LGBT+
Selim, Hedayat, Pia Lindblad, Johanna Vanto, Jenny Skrifvars, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Julia Korkman, Elina Pirjatanniemi, and Jan Antfolk	(In)Credibly Queer? Assessments of Asylum Claims Based on Sexual Orientation	Legal and Criminological Psychology	2025	Claimant	LGBT+
Shelley, Katherine	The Exclusion Trap for Women Refugee Claimants Who Escape Domestic Violence with Children	Osgoode Hall Law Journal	2018	Testimony	Women
Silvola, Ilona Blumgrund née	Credibility assessment of religious conversion in the asylum process: A theological analysis	Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology	2023	Claimant	Religion
Skrifvars, Jenny, Veronica Sui, Jan Antfolk, Tanja van Veldhuizen, and Julia Korkman	Psychological Assumptions Underlying Credibility Assessments in Finnish Asylum Determinations	Nordic Psychology	2022	Testimony
Smeda, Karen	Truth or Dare: A Framework for Analyzing Credibility in Children Seeking Asylum	Cornell International Law Journal	2017	Testimony	Children
Smith-Khan, Laura	Different in the Same Way? Language, Diversity, and Refugee Credibility	International Journal of Refugee Law	2017a	Testimony
Smith-Khan, Laura	Telling Stories: Credibility and the Representation of Social Actors in Australian Asylum Appeals	Discourse & Society	2017b	Testimony
Smith-Khan, Laura	Why Refugee Visa Credibility Assessments Lack Credibility: A Critical Discourse Analysis	Griffith Law Review	2019	Testimony
Smith-Khan, Laura	Migration Practitioners’ Roles in Communicating Credible Refugee Claims	Alternative Law Journal	2020	Testimony
Smith-Khan, Laura	“I Try Not to Be Dominant, but I’m a Lawyer!”: Advisor Resources, Context, and Refugee Credibility	Journal of Refugee Studies	2021	Testimony
Smith-Khan, Laura	Incorporating Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Australian Refugee Credibility Assessments: The Case of CRL18	Journal of International Migration and Integration	2023	Testimony
Stephnitz, Abigail	Storied Pasts: Credibility and Evolving Norms in Asylum Narratives 1989–2018	Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality	2023	Claimant
Sweeney, James A.	Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law	International Journal of Refugee Law	2009	Testimony
Thomas, Robert	Assessing the Credibility of Asylum Claims: EU and UK Approaches Examined	European Journal of Migration and Law	2006	Claimant
Tschalaer, Mengia	Between Queer Liberalisms and Muslim Masculinities: LGBTQI+ Muslim Asylum Assessment in Germany	Ethnic and Racial Studies	2020	Claimant	LGBT+
Van Veldhuizen, Tanja S., Robert Horselenberg, Sara Landström, Pär Anders Granhag, and Peter J. Van Koppen	Interviewing Asylum Seekers: A Vignette Study on the Questions Asked to Assess Credibility of Claims about Origin and Persecution	Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling	2017	Claimant
Verhaeghe, Loes, Marie Jacobs, and Katrijn Maryns	Discursive Tensions of Credibility and Performance in Assessing Lesbian Refugee Claims for International Protection	Journal of International Migration and Integration	2023	Claimant	LGBT+
Westerling, Frida Alizadeh	Technology-Related Risks to the Right to Asylum: Epistemic Vulnerability Production in Automated Credibility Assessment	European Journal of Law and Technology	2022	Claimant
Wikström, Hanna, and Thomas Johansson	Credibility Assessments as “Normative Leakage”: Asylum Applications, Gender and Class	Social Inclusion	2013	Testimony
Wolff, Lotte, and Brandy Cochrane	Queer Legibility and the Refugee Status Determination Process	Sexualities	2023	Claimant	LGBT+
Zambelli, Pia	Hearing Differently: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Assessment of Refugee Narrative	International Journal of Refugee Law	2017	Testimony
Zisakou, Sophia	Credibility Assessment in Asylum Claims Based on Sexual Orientation by the Greek Asylum Service: A Deep-Rooted Culture of Disbelief	Frontiers in Human Dynamics	2021	Claimant	LGBT+
Zisakou, Sophia	Proving Gender and Sexuality in the (Homo)Nationalist Greek Asylum System: Credibility, Sexual Citizenship and the “Bogus” Sexual Other	Sexualities	2023	Claimant	LGBT+
Zisakou, Sophia	Feeling Queer, Feeling Real: Affective Economies of Truth in Queer Asylum Politics	Ethnic and Racial Studies	2024	Claimant	LGBT+