Sanctuary Everywhere

Bibliographic Data

ID4956580
AuthorsRachel Ida Buff
Year2019
Volume2019
Issue135
Pages14-42
Publication date2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-7607809
OpenAlexW2979529317
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited29

This essay considers the historical roots of contemporary sanctuary practices. It traces these roots in the protocols adopted by the 1951 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Convention, tracing the contradictory implementation of these protocols in US policy and practice. It argues that the UNHCR Convention created a distinction between refugees and migrants that met challenges from sanctuary activists responding to the depredations of the US-backed "dirty wars" in Central America during the 1980s. The sanctuary movement contested this distinction, as did the subsequent evolution of immigration and refugee policy. In the current period, the erosion of this distinction by ascendant xenophobia also creates space for the emergence of new definitions and practices of the right to sanctuary and freedom of movement

Convention · Immigration · Immigration policy · Political economy · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Xenophobia · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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