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Cover -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Youth as Agents, Caregivers, and Migrants -- 2 Widening the Frame -- 3 The Making of a Crisis -- 4 ¿Quédate y qué? -- 5 Negotiating Returns -- 6 Debt and Indebtedness -- 7 El derecho a no migrar -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

AbstractDo expert witnesses enable legal violence by participating in a repressive immigration system? Drawing from over 20 years of court watching, accompaniment, and expert witness testimony, this article discusses some of the complications, contradictions, and ethical dilemmas in applying anthropological knowledge to immigration proceedings particularly for child applicants. For example, how might we effectively support individual claims to limited forms of legal relief while not essentializing cultures and countries? How do we resist reductive claims that victimize children and pathologize their parents? This is profoundly challenging, yet also a powerful opportunity. As in fieldwork, engaging with these dilemmas in practice often yields productive insights into how we might educate attorneys and judges from within.

This conceptual article examines the role and limitations of the best interests standard in international and domestic policy, with a particular focus on how the standard is implicated in the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States. Motivated by emergent interdisciplinary scholarship on global youth and informed by a comparative consideration of best interests across other professions, we propose a new model of best interests. This model calls for a multidimensional recognition of youths' family‐, community‐ and decision‐making contexts; acknowledgment of youths' rights; and a commitment to speaking with, rather than for, young people. What results is a novel and dynamic understanding of best interests with relevance to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.