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Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S.
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Michele Statz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0826522084, 9780826522092, 9780826502995, 0826502997, 0826522106, 9780826522108, 9780826522085
- OCLC
- on1003489460, on1263026565
- 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.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.