The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

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Author(s)
Ann S. Wang, Lee
Language
English
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Abstract
Working with San Francisco legal and social service advocates, Lee Ann S. Wang shows how legal protections offered to immigrant and undocumented Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence are wielded opportunistically as tools of law enforcement, harming the communities they claim to protect.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109974
Keywords
Abolition Feminisms; Immigration Law; Gender and Sexual Violence; Policing; Asian American Women; Legal protection; Violence Against Women Act; Legal ethnography; Critical race theory; Critical ethnic studies; Legal fiction; Feminist refusal; U Visa; Antiblackness; T Visa; Anti-trafficking campaigns; Category of the human; Human trafficking; Anti-Asian violence; Hate crimes; Model minority myth; Victim
DOI
10.1215/9781478062028
ISBN
9781478062028, 9781478062028, 9781478029823, 9781478033271, 9781478094616
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina, USA, 2026
Classification
Gender studies, gender groups
Law and society, gender issues
Pages
146
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/