The Violence of Protection

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Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

Lee Ann S. Wang

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Duke University Press
17 February 2026

Gender studies: women; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Gender & the law; Immigration law

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.

By: Lee Ann S. Wang
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 572g
ISBN: 9781478029823
ISBN 10: 147802982X
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 17 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

""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 eﬀort 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