Sanctuary in Pieces Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City

Madokoro, Laura

ISBN 10: 0228022878 / ISBN 13: 9780228022879

Edité par McGill Queens Univ, 2024

336 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur x-0228022878

Synopsis :

Over the past two decades, the Sanctuary City movement has resulted in hundreds of jurisdictions declaring themselves safe spaces for undocumented migrants and people without status. Although they often draw on historical precedent, public sanctuary efforts amongst settler societies are markedly different from how refuge was conceptualized in the past. To explore these broad shifts, Sanctuary in Pieces looks at the history of protection and hospitality in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke over two hundred years. Laura Madokoro traces the movements and experiences of fugitives from slavery, wanted criminals, internationally renowned anarchists, and war resisters before turning to instances of public sanctuary practices since the 1970s. As people sought and forged refuge, they navigated a web of social connections, political agendas, and economic realities, testing the notion of the city and whom it was for. Even as those in search of sanctuary imagined, and often enacted, possible futures in the city, sanctuary was far from easy: it lay in an underground marked by refusal and denial, selective compassion and solidarity, and sometimes outright animosity. This contested and tumultuous history offers a profound challenge to the symbolism and substance of contemporary sanctuary city efforts. Conceptually innovative, Sanctuary in Pieces speaks to activist and policy considerations in the present, the making and unmaking of community, and how historical practice can accommodate silence in studies of intimate experiences of mobility and, on occasion, refuge.

À propos de l'auteur: Laura Madokoro is a historian who lives and works on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Sanctuary in Pieces Two Centuries of ...
Éditeur : McGill Queens Univ
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Brand New