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BookSanctuary and asylum : a social and political history

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  • Sanctuary and asylum : a social and political history / Linda Rabben.

Published/Produced

  • Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016.
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Description

  • xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN

  • 9780295999128 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780295999135 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LC classification

  • K3268.3 .R335 2016

Contents

  • Introduction -- 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 -- Afterword : Does asylum have a future?

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Notes

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.

LCCN

  • 2016012898

Dewey class no.

  • 342.08/3

Type of material

  • Book

Content type

  • text

Media type

  • unmediated

Carrier type

  • volume

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