CONSTRUCTING A PRODUCTIVE OTHER -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The Construction of the Other -- Discourse Analysis Approaches -- 2. The Chronotope for the Convention Refugee Hearing -- i The Definitions -- ii. The Chronotope for the Hearing as Conducted in 1987 -- iii. Administrative Law -- v. The Singh Case -- 3. Interpreting and Transcribing the Other. -- i. Interpreting the Other -- ii. Legal Consequences of Failed Interpretation -- iii. The Interpreter and the Convention refugee hearing -- iv. How the transcription process worked in 1987 -- Bangladesh -- Pakistan -- Poland: -- Pakistan: -- 4. The Opening Section: The Discursive Paradigm -- i. A General description of the Hearing. -- ii.The Hearing. -- iii. Well-Founded Fear: -- iv. "Well-Founded Fear of Persecution" -- v) Who can persecute? -- vi.Formsof persecution -- vii.Well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion -- 5. The Middle Section: The Life Story -- Example 1: [the former]Yugoslavia -- Example 2: Pakistan -- Example 3: Ghana: -- Example 4: Ghana -- Example 5: Bangladesh -- Example 6: Poland -- 6. The Closing Section: The un-Dialogic Other -- COMPLETED DECLARATION UNDER OATH -- Bakhtin and Legal Discourse -- i. Self and Other, Other as Aut -- ii. Bakhtin and the confession -- iii. Bakhtin and Theory of Rhetoric -- iv. Monologism and Directing the Testimony -- v. Mediations. -- vi. Languages of the Hearing -- vii. The "Authentic" Voice of the Subject -- viii. Discerning the Subject in Discourse -- ix. Directing the narrative -- x. The framework of the Hearing: A Bakhtinian Perspective -- xi. Dialogism.

7. The Implicit and Explicit Criteria for Rendering the Decision: The Woman as Witness and The Appeal Case -- i. The Female Claimant as Witness -- ii. Other Women as Claimants: -- Tanzania: -- Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka -- iii. The Appeal Process: Judge Mahoney Rules -- iv. The Emergence of the Diminished Other -- v. Language, Symbolic Power, and the Intentional Reduction of the Claimant as Other -- vi.Acting Performatively: The Decision-Making Body -- vii.Acting Performatively: The Senior Immigration Officer -- viii. Jürgen Habermas and Pierre Bourdieu: Communicative Competence in a Tightly Regulated Hearing -- 8. Conclusion: The Destruction of the Self -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Bibliography -- Index.