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Sanctuary : the new underground railroad
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ISBN: 0883444402 9780883444405 Year: 1986 Publisher: Maryknoll Orbis Books


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Kirchenasyl : Zeitgeschitliche und rechtliche Aspekte
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ISBN: 3631367627 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York, NY ; Bern : Peter Lang,


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With our own eyes
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ISBN: 0585254664 9780585254661 Year: 1996 Publisher: Scottsdale, Pa. : Herald Press,


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The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia.
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ISBN: 1501764705 1501764713 1501764691 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations, or civil society. Philadelphia has been an important center of sanctuary and reflects the growing diversity of American cities in recent decades. One result of this diversity is that sanctuary means different things for different immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities. Vitiello explores the migration, settlement, and local and transnational civil society of Central Americans, Southeast Asians, Liberians, Arabs, Mexicans, and their allies in the region across the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Together, their experiences illuminate the diversity of immigrants and refugees in the United States and what is at stake for different people, and for all of us, in our immigration debates.


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Father Luis Olivares, a Biography : Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles
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ISBN: 1469643324 1469643332 9781469643328 9781469643335 9781469643311 1469643316 1469669277 9798890850348 9798890850331 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : The University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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"This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934-1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Based on previously unexplored archives and over ninety oral histories, this compelling biography traces the life of a complex and constantly evolving individual, from Olivares's humble beginnings in San Antonio, Texas, to his close friendship with legendary civil rights leader Cesar Chávez and his historic leadership of the United Neighborhoods Organization and the sanctuary movement"--

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