The Violence of Protection
Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women
| dc.contributor.author | Ann S. Wang, Lee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-17T08:56:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-17T08:56:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109974 | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAQ Law and society, sociology of law::LAQG Law and society, gender issues | |
| dc.subject.other | Abolition Feminisms | |
| dc.subject.other | Immigration Law | |
| dc.subject.other | Gender and Sexual Violence | |
| dc.subject.other | Policing | |
| dc.subject.other | Asian American Women | |
| dc.subject.other | Legal protection | |
| dc.subject.other | Violence Against Women Act | |
| dc.subject.other | Legal ethnography | |
| dc.subject.other | Critical race theory | |
| dc.subject.other | Critical ethnic studies | |
| dc.subject.other | Legal fiction | |
| dc.subject.other | Feminist refusal | |
| dc.subject.other | U Visa | |
| dc.subject.other | Antiblackness | |
| dc.subject.other | T Visa | |
| dc.subject.other | Anti-trafficking campaigns | |
| dc.subject.other | Category of the human | |
| dc.subject.other | Human trafficking | |
| dc.subject.other | Anti-Asian violence | |
| dc.subject.other | Hate crimes | |
| dc.subject.other | Model minority myth | |
| dc.subject.other | Victim | |
| dc.title | The Violence of Protection | |
| dc.title.alternative | Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women | |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.1215/9781478062028 | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478062028 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478029823 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478033271 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478094616 | |
| oapen.pages | 146 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Durham, North Carolina, USA |

