
09/17/2025
Sanctuary isn’t just shelter—it’s a claim to belonging. 🗽
In THE POLITICS OF SANCTUARY, Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes explores how immigrants and activists in New York City use sanctuary practices to challenge exclusion and demand recognition as full urban citizens.
Blending case study, theory, and lived experience, this book shows how sanctuary reshapes politics and opens pathways to inclusion for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.
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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...