Lawyering an Uncertain Cause Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the US
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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.Lawyering an Uncertain Cause Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the US
"A compelling, lucid, accessible account of the complex negotiations between Fujianese youth and the cause lawyers who represent them in court. Statz has succeeded in making a complex legal context accessible to the lay reader. This book is not only relevant to experts but will also be enjoyed by undergraduate students of anthropology, migration, and legal studies, as well as practitioners in relevant fields."<br />—<b>Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez</b>, author of <i>Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship</i>
"A compelling, lucid, accessible account of the complex negotiations between Fujianese youth and the cause lawyers who represent them in court. Statz has succeeded in making a complex legal context accessible to the lay reader. This book is not only relevant to experts but will also be enjoyed by undergraduate students of anthropology, migration, and legal studies, as well as practitioners in relevant fields."<br />—<b>Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez</b>, author of <i>Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship</i>
"A humanistic, wonderfully written, engaging, and terribly important work of scholarship in a crucial area of research."<br />—<b>Robert Barsky</b>, author of <i>Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed "Illegal"</i>
"A humanistic, wonderfully written, engaging, and terribly important work of scholarship in a crucial area of research."<br />—<b>Robert Barsky</b>, author of <i>Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed "Illegal"</i>
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.
"A compelling, lucid, accessible account of the complex negotiations between Fujianese youth and the cause lawyers who represent them in court. Statz has succeeded in making a complex legal context accessible to the lay reader. This book is not only relevant to experts but will also be enjoyed by undergraduate students of anthropology, migration, and legal studies, as well as practitioners in relevant fields."<br />—<b>Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez</b>, author of <i>Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship</i>
"A compelling, lucid, accessible account of the complex negotiations between Fujianese youth and the cause lawyers who represent them in court. Statz has succeeded in making a complex legal context accessible to the lay reader. This book is not only relevant to experts but will also be enjoyed by undergraduate students of anthropology, migration, and legal studies, as well as practitioners in relevant fields."<br />—<b>Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez</b>, author of <i>Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship</i>
"A humanistic, wonderfully written, engaging, and terribly important work of scholarship in a crucial area of research."<br />—<b>Robert Barsky</b>, author of <i>Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed "Illegal"</i>
"A humanistic, wonderfully written, engaging, and terribly important work of scholarship in a crucial area of research."<br />—<b>Robert Barsky</b>, author of <i>Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed "Illegal"</i>
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.