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Author Statz, Michele, 1983- author.

Title Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. / Michele Statz
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages)
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
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?
Analysis Immigration lawyers
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2018)
Subject 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
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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017043457
ISBN 9780826522108
0826522106