The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitiello, Domenic.

Contributor:

multiple sources, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.

Noncitizens.

Political refugees--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions.

Political refugees.

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance).

Refugees--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Sanctuary movement--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Sanctuary movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2022

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations, or civil society. Philadelphia has been an important center of sanctuary and reflects the growing diversity of American cities in recent decades. One result of this diversity is that sanctuary means different things for different immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities. Vitiello explores the migration, settlement, and local and transnational civil society of Central Americans, Southeast Asians, Liberians, Arabs, Mexicans, and their allies in the region across the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Together, their experiences illuminate the diversity of immigrants and refugees in the United States and what is at stake for different people, and for all of us, in our immigration debates.

Contents:

The Sanctuary City

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Sanctuary and the Immigrant City

1. Sanctuary in Solidarity: Central Americans and the Sanctuary Movement

2. Refugee Resettlement: Southeast Asians and the Resettlement System

3. African Diasporas: Liberians and Black America

4. Muslim Town: Iraqis, Syrians, and Palestinians in Arab and Muslim America

5. New Sanctuary: Mexicans and the New Immigration Movements

Conclusion: What Do We Owe Each Other?

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501764707

1501764705

9781501764714

1501764713

OCLC:

1303567882