Managing narratives, managing identities: Language and credibility in legal consultations with asylum seekers

Responses to language barriers in consultations with refugees and asylum seekers: a telephone survey of Irish general practitioners

BACKGROUND Refugees and asylum seekers experience language barriers in general practice. Qualitative studies have found that responses to language barriers in general practice are ad hoc with use of both professional interpreters and informal interpreters (patients' relatives or friends). However, the scale of the issues involved is unknown. This study quantifies the need for language assistanc...

Managing Multiple and Dependable Identities

Our daily activities increasingly rely on remote resources and services — specifically, on interactions between different, remotely located parties. Because these parties might (and sometimes should) know little about each other, digital identities — electronic representations of individuals’ or organizations’ sensitive information — help introduce them to each other and control the amount of i...

Tuberculosis in asylum seekers

seekers Asylum seekers entering the United Kingdom through Heathrow Airport have a high prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and are more likely to contain drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates than the general UK population. The issue of asylum seekers is universally controversial, with recent reports in the UK suggesting an inward flow of 2 million people in the next 10 years—a f...

Groupwork with Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Managing Legal Precedents with Case Retrieval Nets

Knowledge in the legal domain assumes two distinct forms: case law and legislation. Case law complements legislation, and refers to the use of cases decided in court to provide interpretations to subjective aspects of the legislation. These cases are used as guidance in future similar cases. This paper presents a Case-Based Reasoning system that establishes legal case-bases, allowing the users ...