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Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. / Michele Statz.
Van Pelt Library KF337.5 I45 .S73 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Statz, Michele, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legal assistance to immigrants--United States.
- Legal assistance to immigrants.
- Chinese--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Chinese.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children.
- Immigrant youth--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Immigrant youth.
- Social work with immigrants--United States.
- Social work with immigrants.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--United States--Social conditions.
- Youth--China--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Chinese--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Youth--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- China.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University of Washington, 2014) issued under title: Limited relief : cause lawyering on behalf of unacccompanied Chinese youth.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Statz, Michele, 1983- Lawyering an uncertain cause.
- ISBN:
- 9780826522085
- 0826522084
- 9780826522092
- 0826522092
- OCLC:
- 1002837146
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