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The Politics of Sanctuary examines sanctuaries as spaces where activists oppose what they see as an unjust restrictive regime trapping immigrants in conditions of legal liminality. Drawing on her fieldwork in New York City, Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes explores the politics of immigrant exclusions, and depicts how immigrants in sanctuary cities stake claims for their rightful presence. She argues for a more inclusive political life of expanded urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees through the mechanisms of sanctuary practice. Blending a participant-observation case study of the immigrant-organized New Sanctuary Coalition with urban politics and theory, The Politics of Sanctuary also offers ideas for how ways sanctuary practices, supported by governance and social-service arrangements, can promote legitimate claims to immigrant urban membership and belonging.
Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she teaches Comparative Urban Policy. She is the author of New York in Cinematic Imagination.
Introduction: Migration and the Limits of Urban Policy1. Planning Interventions and Social Biases Against Immigrants2. Resisting the Criminalization of Immigrants3. The Limits of City Sovereignty4. Sanctuary City's Political Space5. Sanctuary, Civil Disobedience, and Acts of Denizenship6. Right to the City, Right to SanctuaryConclusion: The Promise of Sanctuary
