Sanctuary and asylum : a social and political history /

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Author / Creator:Rabben, Linda, 1947- author.
Imprint:Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2016.
Description:xiv, 335 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:A Capell family book
Capell family book.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10877411
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ISBN:9780295999128
0295999128
9780295999135
0295999136
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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?