Description

Book Synopsis


Table of Contents

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
Illustrations follow page

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2016
      ISBN13: 9780295999135, 978-0295999135
      ISBN10: 0295999136
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      Social and cultural history Human rights, civil rights Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      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
      Illustrations follow page

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