Leila Kawar

Contesting Immigration Policy in Court

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of immigrant rights litigation over the past four decades in the United States and France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781107071117
• ISBN-10: 1107071119
• Artikelnr.: 42137829

Autorenporträt

Leila Kawar is an assistant professor in the Legal Studies Program of the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Council for European Studies, focuses on the intersection of legal activity with migration and citizenship. She is active in the Law and Society Association, where she served for four years as coordinator for the Citizenship and Immigration Collaborative Research Network. She is a cofounder of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What difference does law make in immigration policymaking?
2. A new area of legal practice
3. Formalization of immigrant rights
4. Institutionalizing legal innovation
5. Enacting adversarial legalism through class action lawsuits
6. Performing legality before the Conseil d'Etat
7. Conclusion: legal activism and its radiating effects.