Court of injustice : law without recognition in U.S. immigration / J.C. Salyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salyer, J. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigration courts--United States.

Immigration courts.

Immigration courts--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 202 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve. J.C. Salyer specifically investigates immigration enforcement in New York City, following individual migrants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them into the immigration courtrooms that decide their cases. This book is an account of the effects of the implementation of U.S. immigration law and policy. Salyer engages directly with the specific laws and procedures that mandate harsh and inhumane outcomes for migrants and their families. Combining anthropological and legal analysis, Salyer demonstrates the economic, historical, political, and social elements that go into constructing inequity under law for millions of non-citizens who live and work in the United States. Drawing on both ethnographic research conducted in New York City and on the author's knowledge and experience as a practicing immigration lawyer at a non-profit organization, this book provides unique insight into the workings and effects of U.S. immigration law. Court of Injustice provides an up-close view of the experiences of immigration lawyers at non-profit organizations, in law school clinics, and in private practice to reveal limitations and possibilities available to non-citizens under U.S. immigration law. In this way, this book provides a new perspective on the study of migration by focusing specifically on the laws, courts, and people involved in U.S. immigration law.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. The Paradoxes of U.S. Immigration Law and Deportation

CHAPTER 1. Migrants, Criminal Aliens, and Folk Devils

CHAPTER 2. A Social History of the Development of U.S. Immigration Law

CHAPTER 3. The Role of Lawyers and Judges in U.S. Immigration Law

CHAPTER 4. Law Without Recognition

CHAPTER 5. The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project

CONCLUSION. The Limitations and Possibilities of U.S. Immigration Law

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503612495

150361249X

OCLC:

1145083986