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Paul, Oska (2023) Expanding sanctuary : the City of Sanctuary movement in London. Critical Sociology . doi:10.1177/08969205231151599 ISSN 0896-9205.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231151599
Abstract
The City of Sanctuary (CoS) in the United Kingdom aims to create a culture of welcome for asylum seekers and refugees. This is a politically limited approach because it overlooks the effects of other hostile immigration policies. The emergence of the sanctuary movement as ‘Boroughs of Sanctuary’ (BoS) in London brings these shortcomings into sharp focus, as many residents have other precarious immigration statuses. This article examines the extent to which the Lewisham and Southwark BoS initiatives have successfully negotiated and reconfigured sanctuary at a local level to address this urban complexity. In doing so, it engages with different actors, institutions and factions involved in building sanctuary. While the CoS’ exclusionary politics of asylum is still being reproduced in many ways, people with precarious immigration status are co-opting and reconfiguring the sanctuary framework in ways that expand the asylum-oriented focus of the movement and address the broader violence of the hostile environment.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Sociology | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0896-9205 | ||||||
Official Date: | 14 February 2023 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/08969205231151599 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Paul, O. (2023). Expanding Sanctuary: The City of Sanctuary Movement in London. Critical Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231151599. Copyright © 2023 by The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231151599. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 February 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 February 2023 | ||||||
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