{"id":607,"date":"2021-07-09T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/\/sites-of-mistranslation-the-credible-fear-process-in-united-states-immigration-detention\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:13","slug":"sites-of-mistranslation-the-credible-fear-process-in-united-states-immigration-detention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-35-number-2-winter-2021\/sites-of-mistranslation-the-credible-fear-process-in-united-states-immigration-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Sites of (Mis)Translation: The Credible Fear Process in United States Immigration Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">The credible fear interview presents a high-stakes encounter in the circumscribed\u00a0legal process afforded to individuals in immigration detention as they seek asylum in the United States. Limited research, however, exists on the sociolegal consequences of translation and interpretation in the asylum process generally and the credible fear context specifically. This article advances that scholarship in the context of the credible fear process for detained individuals by focusing on two sites of potential (mis)translation and (mis)interpretation: 1) explaining \u201ccredible fear\u201d and 2) transposing individual facts and trauma into the legal categories that United States and international asylum law recognize as forming the basis for asylum claims.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/07\/02-A-A-Nunez-GT-GILJ210023.pdf\">Sites of (Mis)Translation: The Credible Fear Process in United States Immigration Detention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The credible fear interview presents a high-stakes encounter in the circumscribed\u00a0legal process afforded to individuals in immigration detention as they seek asylum in the United States. Limited research, however, exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"parent":591,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-607","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions\/612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}