Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

About this episode

Lee Ann S. Wang discusses her book examining the intersection of policing, immigration law, and the experiences of Asian American women in the context of gender and sexual violence.

The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant survivors from gender and sexual violence only if they agree to cooperate with policing. Drawing upon ethnographic stories with legal and social service advocates who work with Asian immigrant women, the book engages abolition feminisms and antiblackness to critique "victim" as a genre of the human in law and produced through racial configurations of the model minority myth and the good/bad immigrant paradigm. Author Lee Ann S. Wang is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies. She is also a Co-PI on the research initiative, Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories, housed at UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Lee Ann S. Wang

Topics covered

• policing
• immigration law
• Asian American women
• gender violence
• abolition feminisms
• racial configurations

Keywords

• policing
• immigration
• Asian American
• gender violence
• abolition feminisms
• model minority myth
• antiblackness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Duke UP, UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories

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