Sanctuary and Asylum : A Social and Political History

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rabben, Linda, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Washington Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Refugees.
Asylum, Right of.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
refugees.
Refugies.
Refugees
Asylum, Right of > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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