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

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The practice of sanctuary--giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger--may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Capell family book.
Main Author: Rabben, Linda, 1947- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Series:Capell family book.
Subjects:
Asylum, Right of > History.
Asylum, Right of.
Refugees.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Sanctuary & asylum : a social and political history [Cover title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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?