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Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. / Michele Statz.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
- 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?.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Washington, 2014) issued under title: Limited relief : cause lawyering on behalf of unacccompanied Chinese youth.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826502995
- 0826502997
- 9780826522108
- 0826522106
- OCLC:
- 1003489460
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