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Record Nr.

UNISA996487162103316

Autore

Vitiello Domenic

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-5017-6470-5

1-5017-6471-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Disciplina

362.8709748/11

Soggetti

Immigrants - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Social conditions

Noncitizens - Government policy - United States

Political refugees - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Social conditions

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Refugees - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Social conditions

Sanctuary movement - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.