Uncovering sanctuary cities
Between policy, practice, and politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23649643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janika Kuge (0009-0007-4864-5632, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7765/9781526134929.00009 |
| OpenAlex | W2954199065 |
| ISBN | 9781526134929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Sanctuary legislation is used in many different contexts. What the so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ have in common is that city authorities actively ignore people’s legal status when conducting business with their inhabitants. Thus, while drawing on humanitarian principles, sanctuary practices often have a pragmatic side. For example, the variety of legal and residency statuses of people living together in a city have often resulted in complicated organisational and social networks, the disruption of which by immigration authorities would endanger social peace. This tension has been framed as a contradiction between national requirements and a post-national local reality, a tension that sanctuary practices might be seen as responding to. This chapter draws on these contradictions between the national and the post-national to explore in metropolitan areas discussion of the future role of the local and of statehood is being made and remade in response to concerns around national identity and post-national populations. Sanctuary in these contexts emerges as an urban policy framing that results from such discussions. The chapter thus argues that if sanctuary legislation is a sign of political change in the perception and organisation of migration, it may also signal the changing nature and significance of the nation-state in an interconnected and increasingly urbanised world.
Contradiction · Framing (construction) · Geography · Immigration · Legislation · Metropolitan area · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |