Contesting Immigration Policy in Court - Legal Activism Its Radiating Effects in United States France

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book explores the development of immigrant rights litigation over the past four decades in the United States and France. Zusammenfassung Based on in-depth fieldwork! this book explores the historical development of immigrant rights litigation in both the United States and France over the past four decades. It illustrates that! contrary to conventional wisdom! activity in court can have important effects on immigration policymaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Leila Kawar, Leila (Bowling Green State University Kawar, Kawar Leila
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107415119
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41511-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; France, Law, LAW / General, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, immigration law, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, comparative law, Law & society, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples