Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay.

Mónica Reyes is Assistant Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse Department at DePaul University. Her research interests include cultural rhetorics; rhetorical ecologies; critical refugee studies; and transnational feminist rhetorical literacies. Her work has been featured most recently in Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts (2024); Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing & Culture (2020); and Postcolonial Text (2019). She is also a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

1. A Short Tour of the Project 2. La Mesa Redonda: A Located-Listening Approach to Knowledge-Building 3. En la Frontera: Resisting Spatial Conventions 4. Public Narratives of Asylum and Silence as an Echo of Displacement 5. Cooking, Crocheting, y Cantando: Composing Agency through Routine 6. The Long Path Out through Advocacy-Building