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Making sanctuary cities : migration, citizenship, and urban governance /

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controversial side of progressive migration policy reform. While some migration activists view sanctuary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphris, Rachel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
Series:Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.)
Subjects:
Sanctuary cities > Case studies.
Noncitizens > Government policy > Case studies.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Case studies.
Immigrants > Civil rights > Case studies.
Citizenship > Case studies.
Urban policy > Case studies.
Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale > Études de cas.
Politique urbaine > Études de cas.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Why sanctuary?
  • Performing sanctuary : making sanctuary cities real
  • Tracing sanctuary : histories of empire and urban sovereignty
  • Emplacing sanctuary : hierarchies of authority and enforcement
  • Negotiating sanctuary : emergent moral values
  • Brokering sanctuary : practices of knowledge and city making
  • Conclusion. A moral for urban governance?.