“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis” with Jennifer Bagelman

“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis” with Jennifer Bagelman

Categories: Lectures and Seminars

Thursday, December 03, 2015

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Add to calendar

A 602 Loeb Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Martin Geiger, 613-520-2600 x 3232, martin.geiger@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: MDS, CES, EURUS, Sociology, and Political Science
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Please join us for another event in our lecture series: Mobility & Politics: Emerging Trends and Common Challenges in Europe and Canada

Prof. Jennifer Bagelman (University of Victoria, British Columbia) will provide a talk on entitled “Sanctuary City and the Refugee Crisis”. The talk will be chaired by William Walters and Martin Geiger, Carleton University.

The term ‘sanctuary’ often conjures images of a sacred, secured, and contained space. However, in the context of a growing refugee crisis, we are witnessing the emergence of a more expansive grassroots effort to establish entire cities as a place for sanctuary. Across Canada, the United States, and Europe, the ‘sanctuary city’ movement comprises of a welcoming set of urban practices challenging an exclusionary statist regime.

In this presentation, Bagelman traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day, revealing how this contemporary and supposedly hospitable movement creates possibilities yet also inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime.