(Re-)constructing credibility

Name of applicant

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Title

Professor

Institution

University of Copenhagen

Amount

DKK 79,450

Year

2025

Type of grant

Conferences

Summary

Asylum is different from other legal fields. The stakes are life and death, yet there is scarce externally verifiable evidence to support claims for protection. Consequently, much depends on the assessment of the claimant’s testimony during the interview. This workshop will result in a special issue on the challenges of credibility assessments from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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