Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. / Michele Statz.
2018
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Title
Lawyering an uncertain cause : immigration advocacy and Chinese youth in the U.S. / Michele Statz.
Published
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Call Number
KF337.5 I45 .S73 2018
ISBN
9780826522085 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0826522084 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780826522092 paperback ; alkaline paper
0826522092 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780826522108 ebook
0826522084 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780826522092 paperback ; alkaline paper
0826522092 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780826522108 ebook
Description
xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1002837146
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University of Washington, 2014) issued under title: Limited relief : cause lawyering on behalf of unaccompanied Chinese youth.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Statz, Michele, 1983- Lawyering an uncertain cause. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2018 9780826522108 (OCoLC)1003489460
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acronyms
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface: "The future doesn't come to me"
xiii
1.
"I didn't think it was in her best interest"
1
2.
Cause in Theory and in Practice
32
3.
Poetic and Practical Bridge: Reflections on Youth Mobility
64
4.
Selecting Identity, Rejecting Context: "The Child in Her Context" and Collapsing the Cause
98
5.
Spectacular Case
122
6.
Limited Relief
156
7.
Reflections on Instability and Inconclusiveness
180
Notes
189
References
209
Index
229