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• Title:Sanctuary and asylum : a social and political history / Linda Rabben.
  
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• Variant Title:Sanctuary & asylum
  
• Author/Creator:Rabben, Linda, 1947- author.
  
• Published/Created:Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K3268.3 .R335 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Asylum, Right of--History.
  Asylum, Right of.
  Refugees.
  
• Medical Subjects: Refugees--history.
  
• Description:xiv, 335 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Capell family book.
  
• Summary:The practice of sanctuary--giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger--may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern asylum policies in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, contrasting them with the role that courageous individuals and organizations have played in offering refuge to survivors of torture, persecution, and discrimination. Rabben gives close attention to the mid-2010s refugee crisis in Europe and to Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States. This wide-ranging, timely, and carefully documented account draws on Rabben's experiences as a human rights advocate as well as her training as an anthropologist. Sanctuary and Asylum will help citizens, professionals, and policy makers take informed and compassionate action.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780295999128 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0295999128 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  9780295999135 paperback ; alkaline paper
  0295999136 paperback ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers' Stories
  2. Sanctuary's Beginnings
  3. Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary
  4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum
  5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law
  6. Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue
  7. Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum
  8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
  9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond
  10. Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy
  11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements
  12. News from Tucson
  Afterword: Does Asylum Have a Future?.