New from Cornell University Press: The Politics of Sanctuary by Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes.
About the book, from the publisher:
The Politics of Sanctuary examines sanctuaries as spaces where activists oppose what they see as an unjust restrictive regime trapping immigrants in conditions of legal liminality. Drawing on her fieldwork in New York City, Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes explores the politics of immigrant exclusions, and depicts how immigrants in sanctuary cities stake claims for their rightful presence. She argues for a more inclusive political life of expanded urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees through the mechanisms of sanctuary practice. Blending a participant-observation case study of the immigrant-organized New Sanctuary Coalition with urban politics and theory, The Politics of Sanctuary also offers ideas for how ways sanctuary practices, supported by governance and social-service arrangements, can promote legitimate claims to immigrant urban membership and belonging.Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, with concentrations in Sociology and Political Science, from Columbia University. She was a Paul E. Raether Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College and a Research Associate to the late Benjamin Barber at Urban Consortium, Fordham University, New York. She is the author of New York in Cinematic Imagination: The Agitated City (2020), which was shortlisted during deliberation for the 2021 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award. In May 2022, Filipcevic Cordes received a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from John Jay College, Sociology Department, where she taught from 2017 to 2021.
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