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Amna A. Akbar

Amna A. Akbar is a professor of law at The Ohio State University.


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“The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah

“A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

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