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, this study focuses on the dynamic-relational nature of power differences, which implies a move away from the binary conceptualization of structure and agency. The ethnographic lens helps to unpack agency and reveals a picture of strategic behaviour that is contextually embedded and multi-layered. In this light, the performance of agency and vulnerability is shown to be (1) interactionally achieved, (2) indicative of an awareness of macro-level processes, and (3) reflective of the philosophy behind the authorities’ migration management.

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移民法领域的代理和脆弱性：律师-客户互动的语言-民族志视角

移民通常被视为一群易受伤害的受害者，尤其是在本研究中的法律背景下：移民法领域的律师-客户咨询。文献描述了制度限制通常如何转化为不对称的律师-客户动态。然而，为这项研究收集的语言民族志数据表明，现实更为复杂。在实施代理概念时，本研究侧重于权力差异的动态关系性质，这意味着远离结构和代理的二元概念化。民族志镜头有助于解开代理的包装，并揭示出一种嵌入和多层次的战略行为图景。有鉴于此，代理和脆弱性的表现被证明是（1）交互实现的，