TY - BOOK AU - Paik,A.Naomi TI - Bans, walls, raids, sanctuary: understanding U.S. immigration for the twenty-first century T2 - American studies now; critical histories of the present SN - 9780520973268 AV - JV6483 .B367 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press KW - Noncitizens KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Sanctuary movement KW - Illegal immigration KW - Electronic Books N1 - 1; Bans --; Walls --; Raids --; Sanctuary; 2; b N2 - "Just days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders targeting noncitizens-authorizing the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. The new administration's approach towards noncitizens was defined by bans, walls, and raids. This is the essential primer on how we got here, and what we must do to create a different future. Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that these features have a long history and have long harmed all of us and our relationships to each other. The 45th president's xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. Further, as A. Naomi Paik deftly demonstrates, the attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, queer and gender non-conforming people. These attacks are neither un-American nor unique. By showing how the problems we face today are embedded in the very foundation of the US, this book is a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2368146&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -