Valentina Ramia
Graduate Student in Anthropology
CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow (2021-22)
Department:
Anthropology
CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship Project:
Fear in the Archive: A Digital Analysis of Ethnographic Concepts in Immigration Judges' Decisions
This project is part of my dissertation research about how fear is interpreted in asylum law in the United States. Based on archival data collected during fieldwork, I digitally analyze ethnographic concepts related to “pathological” and “reasonable” fear in order to understand how immigration judges interpret what kind of fear makes someone worthy of asylum.