Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law : a linguistic-ethnographic perspective on lawyer-client interaction Ghent University
Migrants are often perceived as a group of vulnerable victims, especially within a legal context such as the one in this study: lawyer-client consultations in the field of immigration law. The literature describes how institutional limitations often translate into asymmetric lawyer-client dynamics. The linguistic-ethnographic data gathered for this study shows, however, that the reality is more complex. In operationalizing the concept of agency, ...