Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context

Applicants' accounts of experiences of fear, trauma, violence, and persecution are central to the process of claiming asylum. These narratives are, at a human level, primed to provoke emotional responses, not only in the narrator but also in those to whom the account is relayed. In this article...

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Main Authors: Baillot, Helen, Cowen, Sharon, Munro, Vanessa
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2303/
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description Applicants' accounts of experiences of fear, trauma, violence, and persecution are central to the process of claiming asylum. These narratives are, at a human level, primed to provoke emotional responses, not only in the narrator but also in those to whom the account is relayed. In this article, we explore the vectors of emotionality that permeate asylum decision-making in the United Kingdom, focusing particularly on the risk faced by the professionals involved of suffering vicarious trauma.
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spelling nottingham-23032020-05-04T16:39:57Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2303/ Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context Baillot, Helen Cowen, Sharon Munro, Vanessa Applicants' accounts of experiences of fear, trauma, violence, and persecution are central to the process of claiming asylum. These narratives are, at a human level, primed to provoke emotional responses, not only in the narrator but also in those to whom the account is relayed. In this article, we explore the vectors of emotionality that permeate asylum decision-making in the United Kingdom, focusing particularly on the risk faced by the professionals involved of suffering vicarious trauma. Wiley 2013-11-11 Article PeerReviewed Baillot, Helen, Cowen, Sharon and Munro, Vanessa (2013) Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context. Journal of Law and Society, 40 (4). pp. 509-540. ISSN 0263-323X http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00639.x/pdf doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00639.x doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00639.x
spellingShingle Baillot, Helen
Cowen, Sharon
Munro, Vanessa
Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title_full Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title_fullStr Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title_full_unstemmed Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title_short Second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
title_sort second-hand emotion?: exploring the contagion and impact of trauma and distress in the asylum law context
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