Sanctuary And Asylum
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Sanctuary and Asylum
Asylum and sanctuary seekers' stories -- Sanctuary's beginnings -- A thousand years of Medieval sanctuary -- From religious sanctuary to secular asylum -- Nineteenth-century sanctuary outside the law -- The pleasures of Holocaust rescue -- The twentieth-century heyday of asylum -- Asylum now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom -- Asylum now in Europe and beyond -- The golden door ajar : US asylum policy -- Contemporary sanctuary movements -- The news from Tucson -- Does asylum have a future?
Postcolonial Asylum
This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry.
Give Refuge to the Stranger
Linda Rabben tells the story of sanctuary as it evolved over thousands of years around the world, from its origins in primate populations, to its elaboration in ancient religious traditions, to modern asylum laws and to current threats to immigration and human rights.