Lee Ann S. Wang is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies. Her book, The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke University Press), examines U.S. laws (such as the Violence Against Women Act) designed to rescue immigrant survivors from gender and sexual violence only if they agree to cooperate with policing. Drawing upon ethnographic stories with legal and social service advocates who work with Asian immigrant women, the book engages abolition feminisms and antiblackness to critique the model minority myth and the good/bad immigrant paradigm. At its core, the work strives to take up the already gendered and racialized task of writing about people and life, without re-inscribing victimhood as universalism and the violences of legal archive. Methodologies of feminist refusal, theories of racial assemblage and abolition feminisms are engaged to theorize the legal subject of the victim not through personhood, but as a category of the human and law’s production of racial figures. The book demonstrates why a deeper theorization of “victim” in law, is not only necessary to understand the racial politics which anchor the place of gender within intersections of immigration and policing, but central to confronting current impasses and tensions within contemporary Asian American politics set in place by neoliberal state structures that constrain political relations within and against other communities.