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Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve. J.C. Salyer specifically investigates immigration enforcement in New York City, following individual migrants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them into the immigration courtrooms that decide their cases. This book is an account of the effects of the implementation of U.S. immigration law and policy. Salyer engages directly with the specific laws and procedures that mandate harsh and inhumane outcomes for migrants and their families. Combining anthropological and legal analysis, Salyer demonstrates the economic, historical, political, and social elements that go into constructing inequity under law for millions of non-citizens who live and work in the United States. Drawing on both ethnographic research conducted in New York City and on the author's knowledge and experience as a practicing immigration lawyer at a non-profit organization, this book provides unique insight into the workings and effects of U.S. immigration law. Court of Injustice provides an up-close view of the experiences of immigration lawyers at non-profit organizations, in law school clinics, and in private practice to reveal limitations and possibilities available to non-citizens under U.S. immigration law. In this way, this book provides a new perspective on the study of migration by focusing specifically on the laws, courts, and people involved in U.S. immigration law.

Immigration courts --- Asylum courts --- Courts of special jurisdiction --- Biopolitics. --- Crimmigration. --- Deportation. --- Immigration Court. --- Immigration Law. --- Judicial Discretion. --- Lawyers. --- Legal Ethnography. --- Plenary Power Doctrine. --- State of Exception.

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The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth. In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young people--those who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systems--because they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detention--they are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voices and everyday experiences of immigrant children and youth themselves. By combining different perspectives from advocates, service providers, attorneys, researchers, and young immigrants, the volume presents rich accounts that can contribute to informed debates and policy reforms. Illegal Encounters sheds light on the unique ways in which policies, laws, and legal categories shape so much of daily life for young immigrants. The book makes visible the burdens, hopes, and potential of a population of young people and their families who have been largely hidden from public view and are currently under siege, following their movement through complicated immigration systems and institutions in the United States.--Publisher website.

Noncitizen children --- Juvenile detention --- Deportation --- Mexicans --- Central Americans --- Illegal immigration. --- Government policy --- Social conditions. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Advance Parole. --- Central America. --- DACA. --- Dreamers. --- Guatemala. --- Mexico. --- US Department of Justice. --- US immigration courts. --- US immigration law. --- US immigration legislation. --- US-Mexico border. --- activism. --- child arrivals. --- child welfare. --- childhood. --- children’s rights. --- citizenship. --- civil society. --- criminal aliens. --- deportability. --- deportation orders. --- deterrence. --- digital media. --- domestic violence. --- due process. --- educational opportunities. --- enforcement. --- human rights. --- illegality. --- immigration courts. --- immigration judge. --- immigration law. --- immigration. --- intersectional approach. --- kinship. --- legal relief. --- legal representation. --- legal status. --- legal systems. --- migrant children. --- migrant youth. --- migration. --- mixed-status families. --- national belonging. --- political subjects. --- repatriation. --- smugglers. --- transnational families. --- unaccompanied minors. --- underclass. --- undocumented immigrant. --- undocumented immigrants. --- youth advocacy.