What is called sanctuary today is a collection of diverse discourses, policies, and practices related to the right to move and stay within the territorial jurisdictions of the nation-states that one finds oneself in. The causes for such movement are diverse, but sanctuary politics commonly respond to events of human displacement as a result of political violence, war and civil war, economic desperation, social prejudices, and, increasingly, ecological disaster. Although movements broadly defined in terms of sanctuary or sharing related concerns exist globally (Bauder 2021), the extensive history and contemporary proliferation of practices under the umbrella of sanctuary are predominantly found in North American and Western European cities. This is largely due to the geohistorical implications of colonialism and the concentration of wealth in the Global North alongside concomitant processes of dispossession and the regulatory obstruction of human movement impacting those living in the...
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Precarious-status migrants refer to those who do not hold a valid residence permit or visa in a nation-state. These individuals are frequently qualified as “undocumented,” “irregular,” illegal,” “clandestine,” “unauthorized,” “illegalized,” or “alien”; however, in this entry, we refer to them as “precarious-status migrants” owing to discursive, legal, and practical pitfalls of the previously mentioned labels.
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Benjamin Bruce would like to acknowledge the support of the Mexican National Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology (CONAHCYT) Projects 997 “Programa de investigación sobre mexicanos en Estados Unidos” and 288847 “Ciudades santuario como fronteras emergentes. Dinámicas transnacionales y espacios vividos de mexicanos indocumentados en Estados Unidos” in the elaboration of this contribution.
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Bruce, B., Correia, T., Özdemir, G.Ş. (2023). Sanctuary. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1132-1
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