Lawyering an Uncertain Cause

Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S.

Michele Statz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

257 Seiten

2018
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-2209-2 (ISBN)

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Each year, a number of youth who migrate alone and clandestinely from China to the United States are apprehended, placed in removal proceedings, and designated as unaccompanied minors. These young migrants represent only a fraction of all unaccompanied minors in the US, yet they are in many ways depicted as a preeminent professional and moral cause by immigration advocates.

In and beyond the legal realm, the figure of the ""vulnerable Chinese child"" powerfully legitimates legal claims and attorneys' efforts. At the same time, the transnational ambitions and obligations of Chinese youth implicitly unsettle this figure. Youths' maneuvers not only belie attorneys' reliance on racialized discourses of childhood and the Chinese family, but they also reveal more broad uncertainties around legal frameworks, institutional practices, health and labor rights—and cause lawyering itself.

Based on three years of fieldwork across the United States, Lawyering an Uncertain Cause is a novel study of the complex and often contradictory rights, responsibilities, and expectations that motivate global youth and the American attorneys who work on their behalf.

Michele Statz is an anthropologist of law at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth. She is a creator and co-editor of the website Youth Circulations.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2018
Verlagsort	Tennessee
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 223 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8265-2209-2 / 0826522092
ISBN-13	978-0-8265-2209-2 / 9780826522092
Zustand	Neuware