Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Social sciences. --- Political science. --- Public policy. --- Public law. --- Political sociology. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Migration. --- Public Policy. --- Human Geography. --- Political Sociology. --- Political Science. --- Public Law. --- Political refugees --- Refuge (Humanitarian assistance) --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social conditions. --- Refuge --- Sanctuary (Humanitarian assistance) --- Shelter (Humanitarian assistance) --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- Humanitarian assistance --- Law --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Sociological aspects --- Public law . --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization