La Charla
Documenting the Experience of Unaccompanied Minors in Immigration Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Huynh (0000-0002-6577-3907, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 616-630 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2019.1627188 |
| OpenAlex | W2970171096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
There is no minimum age for children to appear unaccompanied in immigration court in the United States; infants and toddlers, like adults, can receive notices to appear and are not given legal counsel. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in three US immigration courts, I examine how unaccompanied immigrant minors experience the legal removal process and represent themselves in court. I find that the US court system is ill equipped to deal with the unique needs of immigrant minors: fear and confusion infiltrate the process. The qualitative conditions of the courtroom prevent children from receiving fair legal counsel, thus denying them due process. Ethnographic data indicate that creating a more child-friendly immigration court includes providing access to legal help desks in municipal buildings; ensuring fair and accurate translation of removal proceedings; increasing the transparency of legal relief options and roles of stakeholders in the courtroom to families and minors; and streamlining national policies or the training on best practices for unaccompanied minors provided to judges who decide in removal proceedings
Confusion · Criminology · Deportation · Ethnography · Immigration · Immigration law · Political science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
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Parli l’italiano?’
Virtuality for Real Children
Can You Hear Me Now? Attorney Perceptions of Interpretation, Technology, and Power in Immigration Court
Interviewing Asylum-Seeking Children
Criminalización de menores migrantes no acompañados
The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court
Legal care work
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Child—What Sort of Human?
Constructing Illegality in America
Youth, gangs and violence
Contesting criminality
Children's Experiences with Family Justice Professionals in Ontario and Ohio
Data Saturation
Architects of Justice
Telephone interpreting should be used only as a last resort.’ Interpreters’ perceptions of the suitability, remuneration and quality of telephone interpreting
Falling through the cracks
Consequences of criminal court involvement for child victims
Our Right is the Right to Be Killed
The state of confusion
Gangster in guerilla face
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |