The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

Lee Ann S. Wang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3327-1 (ISBN)

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Celebrated as a feminist victory upon its passage as part of the Clinton Crime Bill, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a landmark piece of legislation that provides protections for survivors of gender and sexual violence. However, as Lee Ann S. Wang shows in The Violence of Protection, VAWA primarily funds law enforcement efforts to rescue women, and in doing so, creates conditions of racial violence against survivors from communities who are already policed, surveilled, and face immigration enforcement. Through ethnographic fieldwork with legal and social advocates serving Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wang shows how these activists grapple with laws which require survivors to cooperate with policing in order to receive protection. Engaging in methodologies of feminist refusal, theories of racial assemblage, and abolition feminisms, The Violence of Protection theorizes the victim as a legal subject and exposes the racial violence enacted when State-provided legal safeguards are leveraged to expand punishment against survivors, their communities, and others.

Lee Ann S. Wang is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Introduction 1
1 Writing Against Legal Fictions: Feminist Refusals, Victim, and Ethnographic Impasse
2. Making the Undocumented Crime Victim: Cooperation, Model Minority, and Policing as Mutual Exchange
3. The Contractable Victim: The Racial Figure of the Modern-Day Slave, Injury, and Surveillance in Antitrafficking Law
Conclusion. Abolition Feminisms: Rewriting the Victim in Anti-Asian Hate
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.2.2026
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-3327-4 / 1478033274
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3327-1 / 9781478033271
Zustand	Neuware