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The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Conceptualized at a time of resurgent white nationalism, this volume not only critically interrogates right-wing xenophobia but also the liberal ruse of asylum and its place in Western humanism. Drawing on the liberatory histories and counter-cartographies of migrant movements and the intellectual traditions of the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial thought, and critical refugee studies, the contributors analyze the colonial-racial logics of humanitarian reason and its carceral geographies of camps and crossings. Whether analyzing guerrilla art projects that memorialize female migrants who died crossing the US-Mexico border, schools for undocumented students, housing solidarity movements in state-run camps in Greece, or transnational struggles for abolition, this collection foregrounds ideas and practices of fugitivity and freedom that refuse and reworld the West. Contributors. Leisy Abrego, Damon Azali-Rojas, Amy Sara Carroll, Sharad Chari, Nicholas De Genova, Ricardo Dominguez, Lorgia García-Peña, Sarah Haley, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Moon-Kie Jung, Maria Kaika, Saree Makdisi, Kyle T. Mays, Ananya Roy, Charles Sepulveda, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, João H. Costa Vargas, Rinaldo Walcott, Veronika Zablotsky, Maite Zubiaurre

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""Beyond Sanctuary is a remarkable work of collective scholarship. Together, the essays provide an expansive account of the idea of sanctuary as it intersects with concepts such as imperialism, cosmopolitanism, racial capitalism, and much more. This collection does a tremendous job of putting different standpoints and theoretical traditions into an original and productive conversation that will be valuable for radical academics and organizers.""--Karma R. Chávez, author of ""The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance"" ""Beyond Sanctuary is a wonderful read that presents unparalleled contributions around the impossible possibility of sanctuary. The essays come together in a generous, incisive way, carefully tracing the ethical and political demands of migrant movements. This is a book that will stay with us for a long time: it offers key insights and asks powerful questions that grant new points of reference for students, scholars, and organizers working on asylum regimes and politics across the Atlantic.""--Michele Lancione, author of ""For a Liberatory Politics of Home""

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Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Veronika Zablotsky is Assistant Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.

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