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Precarious Protections - Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (Hardcover)
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Precarious Protections - Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (Hardcover)
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More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to
seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade, over a half million
children have fled from Central America to the United States,
seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by violence.
Yet upon their arrival, they fail to find the protection that our
laws promise, based on the broadly shared belief that children
should be safeguarded. A meticulously researched ethnography,
Precarious Protections chronicles the experiences and perspectives
of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration
attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the US
asylum process. Chiara Galli debunks assumptions about asylum,
including the idea that people are being denied protection because
they file bogus claims. In practice, the United States interprets
asylum law far more narrowly than what is necessary to recognize
real-world experiences of escape from life-threatening violence.
This is especially true for children from Central America. Galli
reveals the formidable challenges of lawyering with children and
exposes the human toll of the US immigration bureaucracy.
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