Weeks 1-2 | Weeks 3-4 | Weeks 5-6 | Weeks 7-8 | Weeks 9-10

We will be reading from Linda Rabben's new book throughout the quarter, so you may want to buy a copy. Other readings linked as needed.

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press.

Remote participants join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://uw-ischool.zoom.us/j/8246900430

Weeks 1-2: The faith-based nature of sanctuary and its implications (Jan 10, 17)

Lead: Ricardo

Introductions - Jan 10

Introductions, logic and flow of the reading seminar, distribution of topics for class presentations (each student signs up for one).

General overview of Sanctuary.

Guest Speaker: Carlos Mejia (Oxfam: Humanitarian Goal Change Manager, currently on secondment at Gates Foundation). Read his reflections on UN World Humanitarian Summit in June 2016) at http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2016/06/youd-better-take-us-seriously/

Readings

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press. Read Introduction (pp 1-8) and Ch 2, Sanctuary's Beginnings, skim Ch 3, A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary, then read Ch 4, From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum: pp 27-56)

Jan 17: Overview - Sanctuary and Refugee

How do sanctuary proponents use their faith to justify their civil disobedience? What are the legal, practical, and ethical ramifications of a Christian contestation of state-based judicial systems? In what ways do religious beliefs and practices impact normative political processes? How do sanctuary proponents of different faiths form and maintain networks and communication across time and space?

Guest Speaker: (tentative): Jorge Baron, Northwest Immigrants Rights Project

Readings

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press. Chapters 5 & 6: pp 95-147.
Lippert, R. (2011). Sanctuary, sovereignty, sacrifice: Canadian sanctuary incidents, power, and law. UBC Press. Ch 4: Sanctuary as Sovereign Power, pp. 68-88
Smith, Christian (1996). Resisting Reagan: The US Central America Peace Movement, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Read Ch 4, Launching the Peace Movement, and skim through ch 5,6 & 12.
Chinchilla, N. S., Hamilton, N., & Loucky, J. (2009). The Sanctuary Movement and Central American Activism in Los Angeles. Latin American Perspectives, 36(6), 101–126.

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Weeks 3-4: Sanctuary in the US and in Europe

How have ideas about sanctuary traveled from the US-based social movement of the 1980s to Europe in the 2000s? How are these ideas shaped through the internet and through face-to-face meetings and conferences? Who are the actors and what are the forms of global cross-fertilization vis-à-vis ideas about faith, sanctuary, and resistance? In short, how do narratives and associated practices, such as 'sanctuary', become mobile and global?

Lead: Megan

Special topics or guest Speakers?

European Perspectives

Readings, 1/24

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press. (Ch 7, Twentieth Century Heyday of Asylum; Ch 8, Asylum Now in Canada, Australia and the UK; Ch 9, Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond: pp 122-196)

Hatton, T. J., & Williamson, J. G. (2006). Refugees, asylum seekers, and policy in Europe. In Labor Mobility and the World Economy (pp. 249–284). Springer.

European Perspectives (cont)

Readings, 1/31

Peters, M. A., & Besley, T. (2015). The Refugee Crisis and the Right to Political Asylum. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(13–14), 1367–1374
Holmes, S. & Castañeda, H. (2016). Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond: deservingness and difference, life and death. American Ethnologist, 43(1):12-24.
Cantat, C. (2016). Rethinking Mobilities: Solidarity and Migrant Struggles Beyond Narratives of Crisis. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2(4):11-32.

Optional:

Squire, V., & Darling, J. (2013). The “minor” politics of rightful presence: Justice and relationality in City of Sanctuary. International Political Sociology, 7(1), 59–74.
Joly, D. (2016). Haven or hell?: asylum policies and refugees in Europe. Springer. Ch 3, Cracks in the Wall: European Harmonization on Asylum in the Nineties, Ch 4: Reception and Resettlement Policies: a comparative study - pp 44-119)

Additional (optional readings)

Joppke, C. (1998). Asylum and state sovereignty: a comparison of the United States, Germany, and Britain. Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States, 109–52.

Weeks 5-6: Sanctuary in the digital era

What are some of the opportunities and risks afforded by new information and communication technologies to migrants seeking sanctuary? How are privacy and security negotiated by migrants, and how can they make better use of the opportunities offered by technology, while minimizing their exposure to risk? How do migrants use digital technologies to tell their stories and win individuals and organizations--including churches--to their cause?

Smugglers and Border Crossing: 2/7

Lead: Ricardo

Readings for 2/7

Information Practices of Migrants: 2/14

Lead: Fernando

with Guest Speaker: Vero Guajardo, Information Practices of Undocumented Students at UW

Readings for 2/14

Caidi, Nadia, Danielle Allard, and Lisa Quirke. 2010. "Information Practices of Immigrants." Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 44 (1): 491-531. doi:10.1002/aris.2010.1440440118.
Gomez, R. (2016). Vulnerability and Information Practices Among (Undocumented) Latino Migrants. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 75.
Abridged by the Editor. 2009. "Library Services for Immigrants, An Abridged Version." Public Library Quarterly 28 (2): 120-26. doi:10.1080/01616840902892382.
Hamel, Jean-Yves. 2009. "Information and Communication Technologies and Migration." http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19175/.

Explore the interactive research report by BBC:Voices of Refugees http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/publications-and-resources/research/reports/voices-of-refugees

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Weeks 7-8: The spatial dimension of sanctuary

In the context of giving and receiving bodily sanctuary, forced migrants and their supporters both take and invoke spaces and territorial scales other than the nation-state to buttress claims to rights. These include ‘spaces’ at the scale of the spiritual, international, supranational, urban, church, and parish. How is political power exercised and negotiated through the spatial claims, rhetoric, alliances, and conflicts associated with giving and receiving sanctuary? In ways do people resist?

Taking Space: Squatting and other forms of resistance

Lead: Sara Vannini

Readings for 2/21

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press.Ch. 10, The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy; Ch 11, Contemporary Sanctuary Movements. (pp 197-243)

Atac, I. (2016). 'Refugee protest camp Vienna': Making citizens through locations of the protest movement. Citizenship Studies 20, 5: 629-646.

Squire, V. and Bagelman, J. (2012). Taking not waiting. Space, temporality and politics in the City of Sanctuary movement. In P. Nyers and K. Rygiel (eds) Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 146–64.

In contemporary forms of humanitarianism it is possible to see the intertwining of political and economic logics (of development, security, the management of populations, etc.) with strong emotional feelings and experiences (of care and justice). What are the rationalities of humanitarian governance vis-à-vis giving and receiving sanctuary? How can an analysis of faith-based rationalities help us to better understand liberal modes of governance and their various interconnections? In what ways can faith-based practices such as sanctuary also disrupt liberal systems of law and sovereignty?

Lead: Katharyne

Humanitarianism, Faith, Space, and Governance

Guest speaker: José Riera-Cezanne: Humanitarianism and the Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Refugee and Migrant Aid

Readings for 2/28

Sirkeci, I., & Cohen, J. H. (Sept 21, 2016). Refugees, migration addressed in first-time UN summit: What was accomplished? http://theconversation.com/refugees-migration-addressed-in-first-time-un-summit-what-was-accomplished-65839
Read the following (very short, 2-page) articles from this special issue: Ager; Neufert; Ngo; Riera and Poirier. ForcedMigrationReview2014.pdf
Czajka, A. (2013). The potential of sanctuary. Acts of sanctuary through the lens of camp. In Lippert, R. and Rehaag, S. Sanctuary Practices in International Perspective. Migration, Citizenship and Social Movements. London: Routledge, pp. 43-56.
Mitchell, K. Faith, freedom, and humanitarian governance: The spatial politics of church asylum in Europe. Space and Polity. Under review.

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Final week: Sanctuary @ Home

Where do we go from here?

Lead: Katharyne

Sanctuary Campuses and Cities: UW and Seattle, 3/7

Guest speaker: Angélica Chazaro: Assistant Professor, School of Law, UW. See: https://www.law.washington.edu/directory/profile.aspx?ID=813

Readings for 3/7

Rabben, L. (2016). Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History. University of Washington Press.Ch 12: The News from Tucson; Afterword: Does Asylum have a Future? (pp 244-280)

Sanctuary in the City of Seattle Ordinance 2009-0393:

http://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=556531&GUID=BA52CA0A-25A7-4A35-93EB-232051F14EA7&Options=&Search=

Cut Funding From Sanctuary Cities. But Can He? https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/
Immigration Law ’s Looming Fourth Amendment Problem (2015) http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1936&context=facpub
New York City mayor says president can't defund sanctuary cities 'across the board' http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/01/bill-de-blasio/new-york-city-mayor-says-president-cant-defund-san/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-plan-defund-sanctuary-cities-play-article-1.2885423

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