Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges feedback from the 2013 American Anthropological Association conference panel during which the seeds of this work were first planted and later reformulated at the 2014 Society for Applied Anthropology conference. Ideas were further refined during expert witness roundtables held during the third (2014) and fourth (2016) Himalayan Studies Conferences at Yale University and the University of Texas, respectively; I would especially like to thank the input of Mary Cameron, Jim Fisher, Heather Hindman, and Carole McGranahan at these venues. A podcast made from the 2014 conference at Yale University can be found at https://mediaspace.stmarytx.edu/media/Documentary+Podcast+about+Asylum/0_2ayuyljd. I’m thankful to Justin Knodle and Sami Munikar Wagle for research assistance, Kathe Lehman-Meyer for academic technology support, Margaret Costatino’s insights from the Center for Refugee Services (San Antonio), and to Matt Kapitanyam for accompanying me through the legal proceedings. This work also benefitted from the feedback of Mike Sullivan and input of Henry Flores who first alerted me to the importance of the Daubert ruling. A debt of gratitude is also owed to John Brau for all manner of assistance. Finally and most importantly, I am grateful to Korona and other asylum seekers whose courage continues to inspire. Thank you for entrusting me with your story; I hope I did it justice in the telling. Any oversights or shortcomings in the present work are my own.