Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. /

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Why do immigration advocates rely on a ""cause""? And what is at stake when the young migrants at the heart of the cause complicate or even resist attorneys' efforts?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Statz, Michele, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Legal assistance to immigrants > United States.
Chinese > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Immigrant youth > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Social work with immigrants > United States.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > United States > Social conditions.
Youth > China > Social conditions.
Service social aux immigrants > États-Unis.
Enfants immigrants non accompagnés > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Jeunesse > Chine > Conditions sociales.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
LAW / Emigration & Immigration
Immigrant youth > Legal status, laws, etc.
Chinese > Legal status, laws, etc.
Legal assistance to immigrants
Social work with immigrants
Youth > Social conditions
China
United States
Immigration lawyers
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : "the future doesn't come to me"
  • "I didn't think it was in her best interests"
  • The cause in theory and practice
  • A poetic and practical bridge : reflections on youth mobility
  • Selecting identity, rejecting context
  • The spectacular case
  • Limited relief
  • Reflections on instability and inconclusiveness.

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