Lawyering an Uncertain Cause : Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the US /

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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
Main Author: Statz, Michele, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Youth > Social conditions.
Social work with immigrants.
Legal assistance to immigrants.
Chinese > Legal status, laws, etc.
LAW / Emigration & Immigration
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Jeunesse > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Enfants immigrants non accompagnes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Service social aux immigrants > États-Unis.
Youth > China > Social conditions.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > United States > Social conditions.
Social work with immigrants > United States.
Immigrant youth > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Chinese > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Legal assistance to immigrants > United States.
United States.
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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