Expanded Sanctuary: Event Recap

Expanded Sanctuary is part of a series of events that explore the possibilities of sanctuary – as ideal, as theory, as practice, as historical proposition, as a vision of social justice for the present.

Facilitated by the Zolberg Institute Working Group on Expanding Sanctuary and co-sponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global StudiesUrban Studies, and Environmental StudiesDepartment of Anthropology, this event on March 8th 2018 included speakers from Black Youth Project 100, Make the Road New York, African Communities Together, North Star Fund, Enlace, New York State Youth Leadership Council,  New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, UNdocublack, New Sanctuary Coalition, DRUM, Audre Lorde Project, and North Star Fund.

More information here.

Share:

More Posts

Sanctuary Says

Citation: Migration and Society: Advances in Research 4 (2021): 16-18 © The Authors doi:10.3167/arms.2021.040103 Download the pdf Abstract: In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including

Read More »

Sanctuary in Countries of Origin: A Transnational Perspective

Author: Alexandra Délano Alonso  Citation: Migration and Society: Advances in Research 4 (2021): 84–98 © The Authors doi:10.3167/arms.2021.040109 Download the pdf Abstract: While current interpretations of sanctuary are most often associated with practices to protect, support, and accompany migrants with precarious status in countries of destination in the Global North, debates around the concept

Read More »

History of Race, History of Immigration

So a verdict is in in the Derek Chauvin trial. Of course, he’s on trial for the murder of George Floyd. That means that the judge has been informed   that the jury has reached unanimous verdict. The verdict will actually be announced sometime between 4:30 and 5:30 sometime during this class, probably. And I must

Read More »

Biden’s Immigration Agenda

Event Recap Immediately after the election in November, the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) released a report presenting 40 recommendations for immigration policy reform.  In the first week of his Administration, President Biden signed a number of Executive Orders, reversing many of the more drastic immigration policies put in

Read More »
Scroll to Top
%d bloggers like this: