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Tears and More Tears: The Humanitarian Path to Citizenship.
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Tears and More Tears: The Humanitarian Path to Citizenship./
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Lakhani, Sarah Morando.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
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Tears and More Tears: The Humanitarian Path to Citizenship.
Lakhani, Sarah Morando.
Tears and More Tears: The Humanitarian Path to Citizenship.
- 266 p.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.
This dissertation analyzes the legalization process as experienced by immigrant crime victims and their attorneys in Los Angeles, California. Drawing on over three years of ethnographic and qualitative research, I chart the process from the time undocumented immigrants decide they want to regularize their status through a humanitarian remedy and contact attorneys at legal non-profit organizations; through the case development phase, when immigrants collaborate with attorneys to produce compelling petitions for legal standing; to the period of application results and beyond, documenting the consequences of approvals and rejections for immigrants and their families. I also consider immigration lawyers' paths into their profession and examine how their career motivations shape their legal practice. Empirically, I focus on the experiences of female Latin American immigrants as they pursue U Visa status and the attorneys they collaborate with. Created in 2000 through the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, the U Visa is a temporary legal status for immigrant victims of violent crime that offers a path to permanent residency and U.S. citizenship.
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