The Sanctuary City :
Vitiello, Domenic,
The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia / Domenic Vitiello. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022] ©2022 - 1 online resource (306 p.) : 10 b&w halftones, 6 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sanctuary and the Immigrant City -- Chapter 1 Sanctuary in Solidarity: Central Americans and the Sanctuary Movement -- Chapter 2 Refugee Resettlement: Southeast Asians and the Resettlement System -- Chapter 3 African Diasporas: Liberians and Black America -- Chapter 4 Muslim Town: Iraqis, Syrians, and Palestinians in Arab and Muslim America -- Chapter 5 New Sanctuary: Mexicans and the New Immigration Movements -- Conclusion: What Do We Owe Each Other? -- Notes -- Index
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations, or civil society. Philadelphia has been an important center of sanctuary and reflects the growing diversity of American cities in recent decades. One result of this diversity is that sanctuary means different things for different immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities. Vitiello explores the migration, settlement, and local and transnational civil society of Central Americans, Southeast Asians, Liberians, Arabs, Mexicans, and their allies in the region across the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Together, their experiences illuminate the diversity of immigrants and refugees in the United States and what is at stake for different people, and for all of us, in our immigration debates.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9781501764707
2021051816
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
Political refugees--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Refuge (Humanitarian assistance)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Refugees--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Sanctuary movement--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Public Policy.
U.S. History.
Urban Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
immigrant communities in philadelphia, immigrant communities in us cities, immigrant community organizations, politics of immigration, community development and immigration.
JV7078 / .V58 2022
The Sanctuary City : Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia / Domenic Vitiello. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022] ©2022 - 1 online resource (306 p.) : 10 b&w halftones, 6 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sanctuary and the Immigrant City -- Chapter 1 Sanctuary in Solidarity: Central Americans and the Sanctuary Movement -- Chapter 2 Refugee Resettlement: Southeast Asians and the Resettlement System -- Chapter 3 African Diasporas: Liberians and Black America -- Chapter 4 Muslim Town: Iraqis, Syrians, and Palestinians in Arab and Muslim America -- Chapter 5 New Sanctuary: Mexicans and the New Immigration Movements -- Conclusion: What Do We Owe Each Other? -- Notes -- Index
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations, or civil society. Philadelphia has been an important center of sanctuary and reflects the growing diversity of American cities in recent decades. One result of this diversity is that sanctuary means different things for different immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities. Vitiello explores the migration, settlement, and local and transnational civil society of Central Americans, Southeast Asians, Liberians, Arabs, Mexicans, and their allies in the region across the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Together, their experiences illuminate the diversity of immigrants and refugees in the United States and what is at stake for different people, and for all of us, in our immigration debates.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9781501764707
2021051816
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
Political refugees--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Refuge (Humanitarian assistance)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Refugees--Social conditions.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Sanctuary movement--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Public Policy.
U.S. History.
Urban Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
immigrant communities in philadelphia, immigrant communities in us cities, immigrant community organizations, politics of immigration, community development and immigration.
JV7078 / .V58 2022