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In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escapes the everyday, Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
Price: $25.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Publication Date:
27 September 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781478030607
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“Sanctuary Everywhere is a subtle and insightful exploration of the sacred that moves discussions of ‘sanctuary’ toward new intellectual and physical spaces to reveal its unexpected fugitive dimensions. An illuminating book not only for students of the immigration and sanctuary movements, but also for those pondering the meaning of the sacred in an unjust world.”—Mayra Rivera, author of, Poetics of the Flesh
“In this captivating and impactful book Barbara Andrea Sostaita conceptualizes the tradition of sanctuary in more expansive terms than usual. Suggesting that sanctuary is not a place but a fugitive practice, Sostaita invites readers to see sanctuary in spaces and practices far beyond those places, like houses of worship, that have long been designated as sanctuaries and into the lines of communication among detained migrants and the loving ritual of planting crosses where people perished. This singular book will make a splash!”—Karma R. Chávez, author of, The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
"A sharp account of the war on migrant life and a generous, loving, open-hearted analysis of the ways . . . that people refuse this war and offer each other respite, care, and alternatives within it."—China Medel, Latino Studies
“In this captivating and impactful book Barbara Andrea Sostaita conceptualizes the tradition of sanctuary in more expansive terms than usual. Suggesting that sanctuary is not a place but a fugitive practice, Sostaita invites readers to see sanctuary in spaces and practices far beyond those places, like houses of worship, that have long been designated as sanctuaries and into the lines of communication among detained migrants and the loving ritual of planting crosses where people perished. This singular book will make a splash!”—Karma R. Chávez, author of, The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
"A sharp account of the war on migrant life and a generous, loving, open-hearted analysis of the ways . . . that people refuse this war and offer each other respite, care, and alternatives within it."—China Medel, Latino Studies
Barbara Andrea Sostaita is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Fugitive Sacred 1
1. The Desert: Vanishing Time and Sacred Landscapes 33
2. The Detained: Contraband Touch in the Carceral Borderlands 62
3. The Deported: Lines of Flight through Nogales, Sonora 94
4. The Dead: Scenes of Disturbance and Disarticulation 127
Closing Ritual. Presente 158
Conclusion. Samuel Never Left Sanctuary 166
Notes 171
Bibliography 185
Index 195
Introduction. The Fugitive Sacred 1
1. The Desert: Vanishing Time and Sacred Landscapes 33
2. The Detained: Contraband Touch in the Carceral Borderlands 62
3. The Deported: Lines of Flight through Nogales, Sonora 94
4. The Dead: Scenes of Disturbance and Disarticulation 127
Closing Ritual. Presente 158
Conclusion. Samuel Never Left Sanctuary 166
Notes 171
Bibliography 185
Index 195