CREDIBILITY

CREDIBILITY is a Durham University, Institute of Advanced Study project, set to investigate the intersubjective, structural, epistemic and political dimensions of credibility in asylum determination regimes. The project's aims are to decipher the constituent elements of credibility politics, and to fill gaps in philosophies of (in)justice in UK and EU structures of protection... We are an interdisciplinary team of Durham academics who have been researching migration and asylum issues, peace, conflict and violence, gender, trauma, stereotypes, epistemic injustice and human rights. In this project we explore collaboratively how credibility pathways are constructed within asylum adjudication processes in the UK, Greece, Germany and Cyprus. We focus on the role of legal and policy categories, the establishment of systems of knowledge, what constitutes evidence, patterns of evidence and interpretation, and the possibility of epistemic injustice.