Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert - Couverture souple

Sostaita, Barbara Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478030607 ISBN 13 : 9781478030607

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escapes the everyday, Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Andrea Sostaita is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478030607
• ISBN 13: 9781478030607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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