| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Sanctuary for crime in the early common law / Karl Shoemaker -- 'I took up the case of the stranger' : arguments from faith, history and law / David H. Michels and David Blaikie -- The potential of sanctuary : acts of sanctuary through the lens of camp / Agnes Czajka -- Sanctuary sans frontières : social movements and solidarity in post-war Northern France / Naomi Millner -- Legacies and origins of the 1980s US-Central American sanctuary movement / Hector Perla, Jr. and Susan Bibler Coutin -- The voice of the voiceless : religious rhetoric, undocumented immigrants and the new sanctuary movement in the United States / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- 'I didn't know if this was sanctuary' : strategic adaptation in the U.S. new sanctuary movement / Grace Yukich -- Holy territories and hospitality : Nordic exceptionality and national differences of sanctuary incidents / Jill Loga, Miikka Pyykkonen, and Hanne Stenvaag -- The rise and features of church asylum in Germany : 'I will take refuge in the shadow of thy wings until the storms are past' / Wolf-Dieter Just -- Ethnography of relationships among church sanctuary actors in Germany / Hiroshi Oda -- The emergence of the Ontario sanctuary coalition : from humanitarian and compassionate review to civil initiative / Hilary Cunningham -- Religious sanctuary in France and Canada / Caroline Patsias and Nastassia Williams -- Everyday enactments of sanctuary : the UK city of sanctuary movement / Jonathan Darling and Vicki Squire -- The birth of a sanctuary-city : a history of governmental sanctuary in San Francisco / Peter Mancina -- The city as a sanctuary in the United States / Jennifer Ridgley -- Seeking sanctuary in a border city : sanctuary movement(s) across the Canada-US border / Julie E.E. Young -- Framing militant sanctuary practices in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2011 / Michael A. Innes |
| Summary |
Sanctuary Practices in Perspective 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. Christian churches began providing physical protection to migrants living without legal status and who were facing imminent deportation in church buildings and communities: first in the United Kingdom and then in the United States, Canada, and several other European countries. These practices arose amidst a dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers arriving in the West, and a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Western countries
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Refugees -- Government policy -- Western countries
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Asylum, Right of -- Western countries
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Asylum, Right of
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Refugees
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Refugees -- Government policy
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Western countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lippert, Randy
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Rehaag, Sean.
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| ISBN |
0415673461 |
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9780415673464 |
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9781283708982 |
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1283708981 |
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1136471618 |
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9781136471612 |
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9780203128947 |
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020312894X |
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