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.
| ISBN: | 9780520305120 |
| Publication date: | 26th May 2020 |
| Author: | A Naomi Paik |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Migration, immigration and emigration Refugees and political asylum |