“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis” with Jennifer Bagelman
“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis” with Jennifer Bagelman
Categories: Lectures and Seminars
A 602 Loeb Building
1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON
Contact Information
Martin Geiger, 613-520-2600 x 3232, martin.geiger@carleton.ca
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No registration required.
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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.