Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century

by A. Naomi Paik

Overview

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520305120
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Series:	American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present , #12
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

A. Naomi Paik is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois and the author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II.

Table of Contents

Overview
Preface

Introduction
1. Bans
2. Walls
3. Raids
4. Sanctuary
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Further Resources

Editorial Reviews

This book provides a diagnosis and suggests a way forward toward a better future. . . . Abolitionist sanctuary combines the radical welcome of sanctuary with the transformative vision of abolition. It sees migration as linked to many other struggles for justice. It is only through collaboration and reimagination, Paik argues, that we will be able to achieve lasting change.

Public Books

Paik succeeds in economically and cogently summarizing the formidable challenges to a just and humane approach to immigration.

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Bans, Walls, Raids, and Sanctuary could easily share shelf space with the works of Rebecca Solnit and Naomi Klein because of Paik’s ability to combine academic rigor and a convincing sense of urgency into a story that we need to hear and act on here and now.”

Lateral

"In Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, Paik has given us an essential guide to our current moment that is both forward looking and well informed by the past. Students, organizers, and activists alike will find this clear and accessible book useful and inspiring."

H-Net

"This is a slim and accessible text that could serve as an introduction to some of the most pressing legal, political, and ethical issues of our day."

Religious Studies Review