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Jennifer J. Bagelman is Temporary Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada, and SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously, she taught at the University of Durham, UK. Jennifer is currently researching the experiential geographies of emergency food provisioning within refugee camps.

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Zusammenfassung

This book traces the ancient concept of sanctuary. It examines how the contemporary sanctuary city movement contributes to a hostile asylum regime by holding asylum seekers in a suspended state where rights are indefinitely deferred. At the same time, it explores myriad subversive practices challenging this waiting state.

Inhalt

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

1. Mapping Sanctuary's Sacred Promise
2. A Politics of Ease
3. Drawing out Time
4. The Idealized City
5. Still Waiting: Security, Temporality, Population
   Conclusion
   Appendices
   Bibliography