New Barbarians at the Gates of Paris? Prosecuting Undocumented Minors in the Juvenile Court—The Problem of the ‘Petits Roumains’.
This article centers on the unaccompanied, undocumented minors who are arrested and subject to prosecution for non-violent offenses at the Paris juvenile court in disproportionate numbers. It illustrates the processes whereby public authorities distinguish between the criminal vagrant whose agency a...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 81; no. 4; pp. 873 - 902 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Fall 2008
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