Country of Origin Information

Here are a few articles/papers that I've come across lately that examine the role played by country of origin information in the asylum process:

"Consistency in Asylum Adjudication: Country Guidance and the Asylum Process in the United Kingdom," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2008) [full-text via Manchester Univ. IR]

Did That Really Happen? Determining The Status of Asylum Applicants Through Corroborative Evidence (Birdsongslaw’s Weblog, posted March 2009) [text]
- Analyzes several recent court decisions that have implications for establishing credibility and the need for corroborative evidence (or country conditions information).

"The politics of knowledge: an examination of the use of country information in the asylum determination process," Paper prepared for "Seeking Refuge: Caught between bureaucracy, lawyers and public indifference?", Centre of African Studies, SOAS, University of London,
April 16-17 2009 [draft text; scroll down to locate]
- Prepared for the "Courts, experts and deciding the law" panel.

"Source Assessment in COI Research," The Researcher, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2009): 2-6 [text]
- Discusses how to evaluate country of origin information, particularly when it involves web-based sources.

Working Party on Country of Origin Information and Country Guidance: Recent Developments (IARLJ, Jan. 2009) [text]
- Reviews several developments relating to COI, including the growing acceptance of standard guidelines for COI, an ECHR case that addressed in part the use and role of COI in decisions on asylum-related cases, and an IJRL article reporting the results of a scholarly study of the UK's country guidance system.

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