ABSTRACT
Ever since the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association produced its first directory of ‘experts’ on the home countries of asylum seekers (ILPA 1993), British anthropologists have been regularly approached by immigration solicitors seeking expert reports on their clients, yet despite this increasing involvement, little has been written on asylum from an anthropological perspective.1 This chapter addresses that gap by illustrating the role of ‘country expert’ evidence in asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims.
