Unbuild Walls
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Unbuild Walls

Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Silky Shah

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eBook - ePub

Unbuild Walls

Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Silky Shah

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About This Book

"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls."
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer's perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition. Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah's personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement's strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.

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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9798888901038
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Immigration Policy
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Prologue
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I: Immigration in the Era of Mass Incarceration
  8. Part II: Organizing for Immigrant Justice
  9. Part III: Making Abolition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Notes
  12. Index
  13. Back Cover