Linda Rabben

Sanctuary and Asylum (eBook, ePUB)

A Social and Political History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The practice of sanctuarygiving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable strangermay be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern asylum policies in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, contrasting them with the role that courageous individuals and organizations have played in offering refuge to survivors of torture, persecution, and discrimination. Rabben gives close attention to the mid-2010s refugee crisis in Europe and to Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States.

This wide-ranging, timely, and carefully documented account draws on Rabben's experiences as a human rights advocate as well as her training as an anthropologist. Sanctuary and Asylum will help citizens, professionals, and policy makers take informed and compassionate action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295999142
• Artikelnr.: 46753222

Autorenporträt

Linda Rabben is associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present, and Future of Sanctuary and Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers' Stories
2. Sanctuary's Beginnings
3. A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary
4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum
5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law
6. The Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue
7. The Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum
8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond
10. The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy
11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements
12. The News from Tucson
Afterword Does Asylum Have a Future?
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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