Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

"This book argues for a more inclusive political life of expanded urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees through active mechanisms of sanctuary practice. The argument is legal, empirical, political, and normative. Empirical arguments are made based on participant-observation fieldwork with the New Sanctuary Coalition in New York"-- Provided by publisher.

Inhalt

Introduction: Migration and the Limits of Urban Policy

1. Planning Interventions and Social Biases Against Immigrants
2. Resisting the Criminalization of Immigrants
3. The Limits of City Sovereignty
4. Sanctuary City's Political Space
5. Sanctuary, Civil Disobedience, and Acts of Denizenship
6. Right to the City, Right to Sanctuary
   Conclusion: The Promise of Sanctuary