The Violence of Protection

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

"A work of demanding precision, one that rewards the reader with insights that shift the foundations upon which so much work on race, immigration, and feminist anti-violence politics continues to rely. With distinctive lucidity and searing analytical prose, Wang brilliantly distills how the 'Asian Immigrant Woman' sutures the state-sanctioned e?ort to end gender-based violence to anti-Black policing in the United States."--Chandan Reddy, author of, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State "The Violence of Protection could not be timelier, unveiling the violence and policing embedded into the very core of immigration law, reaching beyond the brutality we are currently witnessing in the streets into the intimate lives of racialized survivors of gender-based violence. Not content with critique, Wang draws on legacies of abolition feminisms to invite us into the possibilities that open up when we resist the borders imposed by law and explode the conditioned meanings of 'victim' and 'care' within the logics of criminalization into a constellation of care."--Andrea Ritchie, author of, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color