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In All of Us or None, Monisha Das Gupta tells the story of contemporary antideportation organizing in the United States by migrants and refugees labeled as criminal aliens. These activists, who live daily with criminalization, work against forms of deportation that Das Gupta calls settler carcerality—the United States’ use of deportation to exert territorial control in the face of Indigenous self-determination. Drawing on fieldwork with antideportation organizing groups in New York, Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Honolulu, Das Gupta documents the inventive methods of struggle against settler carcerality. Das Gupta shows how the organizers’ actions and visions depart from the settler colonial nature of the mainstream demands for a pathway to citizenship and civil rights. Through direct action, storytelling, political education, and youth and queer leadership, these organizations and collectives conceptualize an abolitionist vision of migration justice that rejects the settler state and encompasses all those who are disavowed. By highlighting this work, Das Gupta demonstrates the transformative promise offered by a dissident migrant-led politics working toward dismantling settler structures and logics.

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“All of Us or None brilliantly moves us through several impasses that have long prevented useful dialogue between migration and Indigenous studies and activisms. Offering an important record of activist labor and thought that is too often marginalized, this truly outstanding book provides a very timely and urgently needed intervention that will advance scholarship across several key fields.” -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant * “Monisha Das Gupta’s powerhouse book is a tour de force of research and analysis grounded in the insights produced by social movements and migrant justice activists. All of Us or None shifts multiple paradigms in the study of migration, migrant rights movements, transnational feminism, and borders, race, gender, and sexuality. Its impact across critical ethnic studies, Chicanx/Latinx studies, Asian American studies, and gender and sexuality studies will be broad.” -- Maylei Blackwell, author of * Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism *

“All of Us or None brilliantly moves us through several impasses that have long prevented useful dialogue between migration and Indigenous studies and activisms. Offering an important record of activist labor and thought that is too often marginalized, this truly outstanding book provides a very timely and urgently needed intervention that will advance scholarship across several key fields.” -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant * “Monisha Das Gupta’s powerhouse book is a tour de force of research and analysis grounded in the insights produced by social movements and migrant justice activists. All of Us or None shifts multiple paradigms in the study of migration, migrant rights movements, transnational feminism, and the study of borders, race, gender, and sexuality. Its impact across critical ethnic studies, Chicanx/Latinx studies, Asian American studies, and gender and sexuality studies will be broad.” -- Maylei Blackwell, author of * Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism *

“All of Us or None brilliantly moves us through several impasses that have long prevented useful dialogue between migration and Indigenous studies and activisms. Offering an important record of activist labor and thought that is too often marginalized, this truly outstanding book provides a very timely and urgently needed intervention that will advance scholarship across several key fields.” -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant *

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Monisha Das Gupta is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is the author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States, also published by Duke University Press.

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