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A young woman flees violence in Mexico and seeks protection in the United States—only to be trafficked as a domestic worker in the Bronx. A decorated immigration judge leaves his post when the policies he proudly upheld capsize in the wake of political turmoil. A Gambian translator who was granted asylum herself talks with other African women about how immigration officers expect victims of torture to behave. A border patrol officer begins to question the training that instructs him to treat the children he finds in the Arizona desert like criminals.Through these and other powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United States. Sarah C. Bishop argues that cultural differences in communication shape every stage of the asylum process, playing a major but unexamined role. Migrants fleeing persecution must reconstruct the details of their lives so governmental authorities can determine whether their experiences justify protection. However, Bishop shows, many factors influence whether an applicant is perceived as credible, from the effects of trauma on the ability to recount an experience chronologically to culturally rooted nonverbal behaviors and displays of emotion. For asylum seekers, harnessing the power of autobiographical storytelling can mean the difference between life and death. A Story to Save Your Life emphasizes how memory, communication, and culture intertwine in migrants' search for safety

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Cover Art -- 1. Halted Expectations -- In Their Own Words: Josh Childress, Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent -- 2. Long Stories Short -- In Their Own Words: Alina Das, Immigration Attorney -- 3. Emotional Labor -- In Their Own Words: Ethan Taubes, Asylum Officer Trainer -- 4. Nonverbal Communication and Credibility -- In Their Own Words: Dr. Renée Sicalides, Psychologist -- 5. Deterring Asylum -- In Their Own Words: Jeffery Chase, Former Immigration Judge -- 6. The Return

'Undocumented Storytellers' offers a critical exploration of the ways undocumented immigrants harness the power of storytelling as a means of self-actualization, to mitigate the fear and uncertainty of life without legal status, and to advocate for immigration reform

1. Refugees as audiences of U.S. media in pre-arrival contexts -- 2. Refugees' use of media in pre-departure preparation and orientations -- 3. Voluntary and mandated media encounters during refugees' first days in the U.S. -- 4. Media and refugees' ongoing resettlement.

This project analyzes the roles of communication and culture in credible fear interviews and asylum hearings in the United States to elucidate how autobiographical testimonies enable and restrain asylum seekers in their efforts to establish themselves as deserving of protection. This work shows how trauma influences one's ability to narrate their past and argues that culturally-bound storytelling norms negatively and unevenly threaten the outcomes of some asylum cases. I support this claim with evidence from oral history interviews with asylum seekers, immigration officers, judges, and attorneys.

This essay examines Moving Memories, the 9/11 Memorial in Tucson, Arizona, as an instance of resistance to dominant ideologies regarding the public memory of national tragedy. Though Moving Memories was designed to reveal the conflicting viewpoints embodied by those affected by 9/11, area residents and government representatives argue that it fails to capture the "true" sentiment of Arizonans. This analysis provides a theoretical interrogation of the memorial's unveiling and later contestation, illustrates the political value of unity over dissention, and theorizes the implications of spatiality in memorialization by way of a detailed review of one of Moving Memories' particularly divisive features.

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ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 78, No. 774, 2023: 101-110.

BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene (HH) compliance is low and difficult to improve among health care workers. We aim to validate an electronic HH system and assess the impact of this system on HH compliance and quality changes over time at both group and individual levels. METHODS: An automated electronic HH system was installed in a 10-bed surgical intensive care unit. RESULTS: The full HH compliance rate increased significantly from 8.4% in week 1 to 20.5% in week 16 with week 10 being the highest (27.4%). The partial compliance rate maintained relative consistency between 13.2% and 20.0%. The combined compliance rate (full compliance rate + partial compliance rate) increased from 23.5% in week 1 to 34.6% in week 16 with week 10 being the highest (41.4%). DISCUSSION: We found significant variations among providers in terms of HH opportunities per shift, full compliance, partial compliance and combined compliance rates. The average duration of hand rubbing over time in partial compliance occurrences did not change significantly over time. CONCLUSIONS: A sensor-based platform with automated HH compliance and quality monitoring, real time feedback and comprehensive individual level analysis, improved providers' HH compliance in an intensive care unit. There were significant variations among individual providers.