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The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

dc.contributor.authorAnn S. Wang, Lee
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-17T08:56:55Z
dc.date.available2026-02-17T08:56:55Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109974
dc.description.abstractWorking 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAQ Law and society, sociology of law::LAQG Law and society, gender issues
dc.subject.otherAbolition Feminisms
dc.subject.otherImmigration Law
dc.subject.otherGender and Sexual Violence
dc.subject.otherPolicing
dc.subject.otherAsian American Women
dc.subject.otherLegal protection
dc.subject.otherViolence Against Women Act
dc.subject.otherLegal ethnography
dc.subject.otherCritical race theory
dc.subject.otherCritical ethnic studies
dc.subject.otherLegal fiction
dc.subject.otherFeminist refusal
dc.subject.otherU Visa
dc.subject.otherAntiblackness
dc.subject.otherT Visa
dc.subject.otherAnti-trafficking campaigns
dc.subject.otherCategory of the human
dc.subject.otherHuman trafficking
dc.subject.otherAnti-Asian violence
dc.subject.otherHate crimes
dc.subject.otherModel minority myth
dc.subject.otherVictim
dc.titleThe Violence of Protection
dc.title.alternativePolicing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1215/9781478062028
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b
oapen.relation.isbn9781478062028
oapen.relation.isbn9781478029823
oapen.relation.isbn9781478033271
oapen.relation.isbn9781478094616
oapen.pages146
oapen.place.publicationDurham, North Carolina, USA


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