IEFV | Lee Ann Wang - Writing on Violence: Asian Immigrant Women, Policing the Proper Victim, and the Racial Subject of Law

The UC Irvine Initiative to End Family Violence welcomes Lee Ann Wang, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, to present "Writing on Violence: Asian Immigrant Women, Policing the Proper Victim, and the Racial Subject of Law."

How might we write about the letter and practice of law in ways that refuse presuppositions of race tied to proper victimhood, injury, and will? This talk focuses on “cooperative” policing under the Violence Against Women Act that engages advocacy efforts for Asian migrant survivors of gender and sexual violence. Drawing from ethnographic articulations from legal and social advocates, Professor Wang explores the temporality of protection designed for undocumented survivors, the terms through which it is understood, and the site of rescue, policing, and punishment. Lastly, the talk emphasizes abolition feminist interrogations of discursive attachments and terms of eligibility that render the legal figure to be a "policing” subject that must deny its bind to a policed object.

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