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Sanctuary City: A Suspended State /by Jennifer J. Bagelman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : (c)2016.; Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (XXVI, 140 pages) : online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137480385
  • 9781349693924
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HB1951-2577 .S263 2016
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Contents:
Subject: "Sanctuary City: A Suspended State traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day revealing how the contemporary and supposedly hospitable 'sanctuary city' inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime. This book specifically explores the UK-based sanctuary movement with a focus on Glasgow, host to the largest population of asylum seekers in the UK. Based on ethnographic research this book examines how sanctuary renders intractable the serious problem of protracted waiting, indefinitely deferring the rights of asylum seekers. Whilst illuminating how sanctuary functions as a technology that suspends many lives, this book also explores how the sanctuary city might politically challenge this waiting state."--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mapping Sanctuary's Sacred Promise; 3 A Politics of Ease; 4 Drawing Out Time; 5 The Idealized City; 6 Still Waiting: Security, Temporality, Population; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

"Sanctuary City: A Suspended State traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day revealing how the contemporary and supposedly hospitable 'sanctuary city' inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime. This book specifically explores the UK-based sanctuary movement with a focus on Glasgow, host to the largest population of asylum seekers in the UK. Based on ethnographic research this book examines how sanctuary renders intractable the serious problem of protracted waiting, indefinitely deferring the rights of asylum seekers. Whilst illuminating how sanctuary functions as a technology that suspends many lives, this book also explores how the sanctuary city might politically challenge this waiting state."--

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