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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.
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Keywords
- Abolition Feminisms
- Anti-Asian violence
- Anti-trafficking campaigns
- Antiblackness
- Asian American women
- Category of the human
- Critical ethnic studies
- critical race theory
- Feminist refusal
- Gender and sexual violence
- Hate crimes
- Human trafficking
- Immigration law
- Legal ethnography
- Legal fiction
- legal protection
- model minority myth
- policing
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- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAQ Law and society, sociology of law::LAQG Law and society, gender issues
- U Visa
- victim
- Violence Against Women Act
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DOI: 10.1215/9781478062028Editions