{"product_id":"unbuild-walls-why-immigrant-justice-needs-abolition-paperback","title":"Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSilky Shah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmna A. Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls\u003c\/em\u003e is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilky Shah \u003c\/strong\u003ehas been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9\/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigrant detention in the United States, and she now serves as its executive director. Her writing on immigration policy and organizing has been published in \u003cem\u003eTruthout\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInquest\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eForge\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the edited volumes \u003cem\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2024), \u003cem\u003eResisting Borders and Technologies of Violence\u003c\/em\u003e (Haymarket Books, 2024), and \u003cem\u003eTransformative Planning\u003c\/em\u003e (Black Rose Books, 2020). She has also appeared in numerous national and local media outlets including the Washington Post, NPR, and MSNBC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53920680444237,"sku":"9798888900840","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/9_9gZYSLTj9798888900840.webp?v=1778914220","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/unbuild-walls-why-immigrant-justice-needs-abolition-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}