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“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis” with Jennifer Bagelman
December 3, 2015 at 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
| Location: | A 602 Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Martin Geiger |
| Contact Email: | martin.geiger@carleton.ca |
Co-hosted and sponsored by CES, EURUS, MDS, Sociology, and Political Science at Carleton.
The Mobility & Politics Lecture Series: Emerging Trends and Common Challenges in Europe and Canada
“Sanctuary City & the Refugee Crisis”
with Prof. Jennifer Bagelman
Chaired by William Walters and Martin Geiger
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.
About the Lecturer: Dr. Jennifer Bagelman is a SSHRC Post-doctoral fellow and Temporary Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her research examines asylum through the intersections between the intimate and the international. Her current research explores the experiential political geographies of emergency food provisioning in German-based refugee camps. As a visitor on Coast and Straits Salish territory, Jennifer also participates in “No One is Illegal” action that works in solidarity with Indigenous resurgence movements that remind us that Canada is Illegal.