The Social Agency of Migrant Youth
unaccompanied youth enter court dockets each year. 185 The explicit
consequence is that the unlawful and independent presence of the
unaccompanied child forces a production of self that cannot reconcile
with the ways institutions and the state have produced them. Thus,
the unresolved paradox remains that the child is neither an agent nor
an existing category of person, yet must stake a claim as such.
185 OLGA BYRNE & ELISE MILLER, VERA INST. OF JUSTICE, CTR. ON IMMIGR. &
JUSTICE, THE FLOW OF UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN THROUGH THE IMMIGRATION
SYSTEM: A RESOURCE FOR PRACTITIONERS, POLICY MAKERS, AND RESEARCHERS 2
(2012), http://www.vera.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/the-flow-of-
unaccompanied-children-through-the-immigration-system.pdf.
186 PRISON GUARD OR PARENT?,
supra
note 35, at 3.
187 While believed to be as old as the United States itself, the popular term “nation
of immigrants” originated in a 1958 with a book entitled
Nation of Immigrants
by
Robert Kennedy. Intimately linked to Cold War politics and the civil rights
movement in the United States, Kennedy’s project professed a political, social, and
historical commitment to cultural pluralism in America. JOHN F. KENNEDY, A
NATION OF IMMIGRANTS (Harper Perennial, 2008) (1964). As Mae Ngai adeptly
identifies, however, Kennedy’s work failed to include immigrants from Asia and
Latin America, instead focusing exclusively on a European immigrant history in
the United States. Mae M. Ngai, “A Nation of Immigrants”: The Cold War and
Civil Rights Origins of Illegal Immigration (Apr. 2010) (unpublished paper),
www.sss.ias.edu/files/papers/paper38.pdf.
188 S
ee
Ginger Thompson,
Crossing with Strangers: Children at the Border; Littlest
Immigrants, Left in Hands of Smugglers
, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 3, 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/world/crossing-with-strangers-children-
border-littlest-immigrants-left-hands-smugglers.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.
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