Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives: Migration, Citizenship and Social Movements

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Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent a revival in the late 1970s. Immigrants living without legal status and their supporters, first in the United Kingdom, and then in the US, Canada, and elsewhere in Europe, have resorted to sanctuary practices to avoid and resist arrest and deportation by state authorities. Sanctuary appeared amidst a dramatic rise in asylum-seekers arriving in Western countries and a simultaneous escalation in national and international efforts to discourage and control their arrival and presence through myriad means, including deportation. This collection of papers by prominent US, European, Canadian, and Japanese scholars is the first to place contemporary sanctuary practices in international, theoretical, and historical perspective. Moving beyond isolated case studies of sanctuary activities and movements, it reveals sanctuary as a far more complex, varied, theoretically-rich, and institutionally-adaptable set of practices. Cover Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Foreword: The Ambiguity of Migration Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: sanctuary across countries, institutions, and disciplines PART I Sanctuary perspectives: historical, theological, legal, theoretical 1 Sanctuary for crime in the early common law 2 ‘I took up the case of the stranger’: arguments from faith, history and law 3 The potential of sanctuary: acts of sanctuary through the lens of camp 4 Sanctuary sans frontières: social movements and solidarity in post-war Northern France PART II Sanctuary movements and practices in the United States: old and new 5 Legacies and origins of the 1980s US–Central American sanctuary movement 6 The voice of the voiceless: religious rhetoric, undocumented immigrants, and the New Sanctuary Movement in the United States 7 ‘I didn’t know if this was sanctuary’: strategic adaptation in the US New Sanctuary Movement PART III Sanctuary movements and practices in Europe and Canada: international comparative and case studies 8 Holy territories and hospitality: Nordic exceptionality and national differences of sanctuary incidents 9 The rise and features of church asylum in Germany: ‘I will take refuge in the shadow of thy wings until the storms are past’ 10 Ethnography of relationships among church sanctuary actors in Germany 11 The emergence of the Ontario Sanctuary Coalition: from humanitarian and compassionate review to civil initiative 12 Religious sanctuary in France and Canada PART IV Emergent realms: Cities of Sanctuary and military sanctuaries 13 Everyday enactments of sanctuary: the UK City of Sanctuary movement 14 The birth of a sanctuary-city: a history of governmental sanctuary in San Francisco 15 The city as a sanctuary in the United States 16 Seeking sanctuary in a border city: sanctuary movement(s) across the Canada–US border 17 Framing militant sanctuary practices in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001–11 Index