Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France

ISBN-13: 9781107415119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str.

Leila Kawar

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Leila Kawar's well researched and clearly written study convincingly demonstrates how legal rights activists generated a variety of important impacts on immigration policy-making in both France and the United States over several decades. Contesting Immigration Policy in Court is an important book for all scholars interested in legal activism, the politics of rights, and social change.' Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor, University of Washington, DC

Spis treści

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.