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?

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Statz, Michele, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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?
Item Description:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University of Washington, 2014) issued under title: Limited relief : cause lawyering on behalf of unacccompanied Chinese youth.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 235 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826522108
0826522106

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