A Naomi Paik
Biographic Data
| ID | 180344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Naomi Paik |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Paik |
| SIGNATURE | PAIK A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3921-9208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sanctuary for None
This article examines migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to 2024. During this time of accelerating globalization and transnational migration, US border policy has pushed migrants to cross the southern border through the desert, often through protected areas such as the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. In response, US state agencies have weaponized environmental protections to criminalize migration, as we…
Abolitionist sanctuary under Trump 2.0
This article examines the importance of sanctuary movements under rising fascism in the US under the second presidential administration of Donald Trump. It looks to the history of U.S. sanctuary movements for migrants as a guide for organizing today, particularly efforts of ordinary people “doing justice” to defend migrants in open violation of the state. It then examines the U.S. political conditions in the first months of Trump’s second regime,…
Lessons
In early April 1996, three students began a hunger strike and camped on the quad of Columbia University's campus.They, alongside hundreds of other students, had organized for over one year, engaging dialogues with administrators (who argued in bad-faith), escalating with sit-ins, and mobilizing popular education.They demanded a fully funded department of ethnic studies, starting with at least three tenured faculty to build the department, followe…
U.S. Imperialism and Rights
The United States is an imperial nation. From its origins as a settler colony to its status today as a dominant economic and political power armed with the largest military force on earth, it has established and extended its power over others—taking land, extracting resources, exploiting labor, and ensuring unequal relationships that benefit its interests. Despite its founding declaration, the U.S. has never recognized the self-evident equality o…
Germinations
The idea of the Anthropocene has spread far beyond its origins in geology, becoming common in contemporary activist and intellectual circles. But who is responsible for the mounting disasters associated with the age of anthropos, and who should be made to pay reparations? What if the onset of the Anthropocene was tenaciously resisted in various different historical moments and parts of the planet? This issue recuperates the alternative worlds, or…
Universities, Unjust Law, and Campus Sanctuaries
This essay examines the campus sanctuary movement that launched in response to the 2016 US presidential election. It focuses on the case of my employer to illuminate the broader context of the campus sanctuary movement's nationwide emergence, including the neoliberal evisceration of higher education and right-wing attacks on intellectual freedom and demands for social justice. Recognizing that the institution will not save us, sanctuary organizer…
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Sanctuary's Radical Networks
This editors' introduction examines the genealogies of sanctuary as a space-and movement-based oppositional practice, one that contests the sovereign power of the nation-state and the structural roots of multiple, intersecting oppressions. Like each contribution to this special issue, the introduction challenges readers to reconsider the meanings and possibilities of sanctuary movements across time and place. It raises contexts and themes that ar…
Violent Entanglements
Abolitionist futures and the US sanctuary movement
This article focuses on the histories, current challenges, and future directions of the sanctuary movement in the United States, which is becoming a central front of resistance to the administration of Donald Trump. The article is comprised of three main components. It discusses the history of the US sanctuary movement and situates it in the context of the rise of neoliberalism and its attendant escalating criminalisation, particularly since the …
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
This book grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and in…
Carceral Quarantine at Guantánamo
This article examines the case of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees the US state indefinitely detained on its Guantánamo naval base from 1991 to 1994. It argues that the predicament of these refugees emerged out of a nexus of historical threads that became entangled at Guantánamo, including the US state's near absolute exclusion of Haitian refugees, the legacy of antiblack and anti-Haitian racism, the discourses of disease that were linked…
Education and empire, old and new: HR 3077 and the resurgence of the US university
This essay examines HR 3077, the 2003 International Studies in Higher Act, which sought to tie federal funding for university-based area studies programs to the interests of the US security state. While locating it in the post-9/11 context, the essay situates HR 3077 in a broader frame that elucidates the shifting but always intimate relationship between education and imperialism. It discusses how knowledge production has long been tied to imperi…
Testifying to Rightlessness
This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay from 1991 to 1994. By reading this legal archive as both storytelling and truth-telling, it examines how the refugees speak to their experiences of persecution and of t…
Abolitionist futures and the US sanctuary movement
This article focuses on the histories, current challenges, and future directions of the sanctuary movement in the United States, which is becoming a central front of resistance to the administration of Donald Trump. The article is comprised of three main components. It discusses the history of the US sanctuary movement and situates it in the context of the rise of neoliberalism and its attendant escalating criminalisation, particularly since the …
Carceral Quarantine at Guantánamo
This article examines the case of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees the US state indefinitely detained on its Guantánamo naval base from 1991 to 1994. It argues that the predicament of these refugees emerged out of a nexus of historical threads that became entangled at Guantánamo, including the US state's near absolute exclusion of Haitian refugees, the legacy of antiblack and anti-Haitian racism, the discourses of disease that were linked…
Sanctuary's Radical Networks
This editors' introduction examines the genealogies of sanctuary as a space-and movement-based oppositional practice, one that contests the sovereign power of the nation-state and the structural roots of multiple, intersecting oppressions. Like each contribution to this special issue, the introduction challenges readers to reconsider the meanings and possibilities of sanctuary movements across time and place. It raises contexts and themes that ar…
Violent Entanglements
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
Education and empire, old and new: HR 3077 and the resurgence of the US university
This essay examines HR 3077, the 2003 International Studies in Higher Act, which sought to tie federal funding for university-based area studies programs to the interests of the US security state. While locating it in the post-9/11 context, the essay situates HR 3077 in a broader frame that elucidates the shifting but always intimate relationship between education and imperialism. It discusses how knowledge production has long been tied to imperi…
Testifying to Rightlessness
This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay from 1991 to 1994. By reading this legal archive as both storytelling and truth-telling, it examines how the refugees speak to their experiences of persecution and of t…
Testifying to Rightlessness
This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay from 1991 to 1994. By reading this legal archive as both storytelling and truth-telling, it examines how the refugees speak to their experiences of persecution and of t…
Carceral Quarantine at Guantánamo
This article examines the case of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees the US state indefinitely detained on its Guantánamo naval base from 1991 to 1994. It argues that the predicament of these refugees emerged out of a nexus of historical threads that became entangled at Guantánamo, including the US state's near absolute exclusion of Haitian refugees, the legacy of antiblack and anti-Haitian racism, the discourses of disease that were linked…
Education and empire, old and new: HR 3077 and the resurgence of the US university
This essay examines HR 3077, the 2003 International Studies in Higher Act, which sought to tie federal funding for university-based area studies programs to the interests of the US security state. While locating it in the post-9/11 context, the essay situates HR 3077 in a broader frame that elucidates the shifting but always intimate relationship between education and imperialism. It discusses how knowledge production has long been tied to imperi…
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
This book grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and in…
Abolitionist futures and the US sanctuary movement
This article focuses on the histories, current challenges, and future directions of the sanctuary movement in the United States, which is becoming a central front of resistance to the administration of Donald Trump. The article is comprised of three main components. It discusses the history of the US sanctuary movement and situates it in the context of the rise of neoliberalism and its attendant escalating criminalisation, particularly since the …
Sanctuary's Radical Networks
This editors' introduction examines the genealogies of sanctuary as a space-and movement-based oppositional practice, one that contests the sovereign power of the nation-state and the structural roots of multiple, intersecting oppressions. Like each contribution to this special issue, the introduction challenges readers to reconsider the meanings and possibilities of sanctuary movements across time and place. It raises contexts and themes that ar…
Violent Entanglements
Universities, Unjust Law, and Campus Sanctuaries
This essay examines the campus sanctuary movement that launched in response to the 2016 US presidential election. It focuses on the case of my employer to illuminate the broader context of the campus sanctuary movement's nationwide emergence, including the neoliberal evisceration of higher education and right-wing attacks on intellectual freedom and demands for social justice. Recognizing that the institution will not save us, sanctuary organizer…
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Worlds without Police
This introduction highlights the historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that examines places and times without police, which appear in this issue. Modern approaches to governance generally take the presence of police as necessary to maintaining social peace, even though police have proven to fail at fostering public safety and in fact tend to escalate harm and violence. Following the lead of activists working to dismant…
U.S. Imperialism and Rights
The United States is an imperial nation. From its origins as a settler colony to its status today as a dominant economic and political power armed with the largest military force on earth, it has established and extended its power over others—taking land, extracting resources, exploiting labor, and ensuring unequal relationships that benefit its interests. Despite its founding declaration, the U.S. has never recognized the self-evident equality o…
Germinations
The idea of the Anthropocene has spread far beyond its origins in geology, becoming common in contemporary activist and intellectual circles. But who is responsible for the mounting disasters associated with the age of anthropos, and who should be made to pay reparations? What if the onset of the Anthropocene was tenaciously resisted in various different historical moments and parts of the planet? This issue recuperates the alternative worlds, or…
Abolitionist sanctuary under Trump 2.0
This article examines the importance of sanctuary movements under rising fascism in the US under the second presidential administration of Donald Trump. It looks to the history of U.S. sanctuary movements for migrants as a guide for organizing today, particularly efforts of ordinary people “doing justice” to defend migrants in open violation of the state. It then examines the U.S. political conditions in the first months of Trump’s second regime,…
Lessons
In early April 1996, three students began a hunger strike and camped on the quad of Columbia University's campus.They, alongside hundreds of other students, had organized for over one year, engaging dialogues with administrators (who argued in bad-faith), escalating with sit-ins, and mobilizing popular education.They demanded a fully funded department of ethnic studies, starting with at least three tenured faculty to build the department, followe…
Sanctuary for None
This article examines migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to 2024. During this time of accelerating globalization and transnational migration, US border policy has pushed migrants to cross the southern border through the desert, often through protected areas such as the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. In response, US state agencies have weaponized environmental protections to criminalize migration, as we…
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