Beyond Sanctuary
The Humanism of a World in Motion
Published on 12. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-4780-3198-7 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Conceptualized at a time of resurgent white nationalism, this volume not only critically interrogates right-wing xenophobia but also the liberal ruse of asylum and its place in Western humanism. Drawing on the liberatory histories and counter-cartographies of migrant movements and the intellectual traditions of the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial thought, and critical refugee studies, the contributors analyze the colonial-racial logics of humanitarian reason and its carceral geographies of camps and crossings. Whether analyzing guerrilla art projects that memorialize female migrants who died crossing the US-Mexico border, schools for undocumented students, housing solidarity movements in state-run camps in Greece, or transnational struggles for abolition, this collection foregrounds ideas and practices of fugitivity and freedom that refuse and reworld the West.
Contributors. Leisy Abrego, Damon Azali-Rojas, Amy Sara Carroll, Sharad Chari, Nicholas De Genova, Ricardo Dominguez, Lorgia GarcIa-PeNa, Sarah Haley, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Moon-Kie Jung, Maria Kaika, Saree Makdisi, Kyle T. Mays, Ananya Roy, Charles Sepulveda, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, JoAo H. Costa Vargas, Rinaldo Walcott, Veronika Zablotsky, Maite Zubiaurre
Contributors. Leisy Abrego, Damon Azali-Rojas, Amy Sara Carroll, Sharad Chari, Nicholas De Genova, Ricardo Dominguez, Lorgia GarcIa-PeNa, Sarah Haley, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Moon-Kie Jung, Maria Kaika, Saree Makdisi, Kyle T. Mays, Ananya Roy, Charles Sepulveda, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, JoAo H. Costa Vargas, Rinaldo Walcott, Veronika Zablotsky, Maite Zubiaurre
Reviews / Votes
"Beyond Sanctuary is a remarkable work of collective scholarship. Together, the essays provide an expansive account of the idea of sanctuary as it intersects with concepts such as imperialism, cosmopolitanism, racial capitalism, and much more. This collection does a tremendous job of putting different standpoints and theoretical traditions into an original and productive conversation that will be valuable for radical academics and organizers." - Karma R. Chavez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance"Beyond Sanctuary is a wonderful read that presents unparalleled contributions around the impossible possibility of sanctuary. The essays come together in a generous, incisive way, carefully tracing the ethical and political demands of migrant movements. This is a book that will stay with us for a long time: it offers key insights and asks powerful questions that grant new points of reference for students, scholars, and organizers working on asylum regimes and politics across the Atlantic." - Michele Lancione, author of For a Liberatory Politics of Home
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
19 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-3198-7 (9781478031987)
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Persons
Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Veronika Zablotsky is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Freie UniversitAEt Berlin.
Veronika Zablotsky is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Freie UniversitAEt Berlin.
Content
Foreword. Sanctuary Politics and the Role of the University in the Time of Trumpism / Ananya Roy and Maite Zubiaurre ix
Introduction. Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 1
Interlude. Asylum At the Borders of Humanitarianism / Ananya Roy 41
Part I. Abolition on Stolen Land
1. This Is an Incitement: Abolition on Stolen Land / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Damon Azali-Rojas 45
2. Beyond the Social Death of Conquest: Kuuyam and Healthy Human-Land Kinship(s) / Charles A. Sepulveda 59
3. Killing the Dead: Genocide and Antiblackness / Moon-Kie Jung and JoAo H. Costa Vargas 77
4. From Minneapolis to Dessau, from Moria to Tripoli: Breathing, Resistance, and International Pathways of Abolition / Vanessa E. Thompson 96
5. Abolition Is My Sanctuary: A Love Letter to Freedom / Lorgia GarcIa PeNa 116
Interlude. Abolitionist Practice: Bringing Our Imagination to Life / Veronika Zablotsky 131
Part II. The End of Humanitarianism
6. "Mujer Migrante Memorial (MMM)" and Necro-Art / Maite Zubiaurre 135
7. From Camp to Commons: Infrastructures of Decolonial Solidarity in Europe / Charalampos Tsavdaroglou and Maria Kaika 155
8. Humanitarian Racism / Saree Makdisi 176
9. trans/BORDER/ing (an un-play 4 accompaniment) / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez 196
10. Postcoloniality, Race, and the Ruse of Asylum: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 214
Interlude. Sanctuary and Solidarity: Resisting the US War on Refugees and Migrants / Veronika Zablotsky 231
Part III. Freedom and Fugitivity
11. Fugitive Relation and Errant Social Reproduction: A Note / Sarah Haley 235
12. An Oceanic International in Catastrophic Times / Sharad Chari 249
13. Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams / SA Smythe 266
14. Dispossession and Its Aftermath: The Sites of Black Indigenous Fugitivity / Kyle Mays 294
15. Freedom's Revenge, or, Toward Liberation / Rinaldo Walcott 309
Interlude. Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool / Veronika Zablotsky 323
Conclusion. Sanctuary and the Praxis of Solidarity / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Leisy J. Abrego 325
Acknowledgments 341
Contributors 343
Index 353
Introduction. Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 1
Interlude. Asylum At the Borders of Humanitarianism / Ananya Roy 41
Part I. Abolition on Stolen Land
1. This Is an Incitement: Abolition on Stolen Land / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Damon Azali-Rojas 45
2. Beyond the Social Death of Conquest: Kuuyam and Healthy Human-Land Kinship(s) / Charles A. Sepulveda 59
3. Killing the Dead: Genocide and Antiblackness / Moon-Kie Jung and JoAo H. Costa Vargas 77
4. From Minneapolis to Dessau, from Moria to Tripoli: Breathing, Resistance, and International Pathways of Abolition / Vanessa E. Thompson 96
5. Abolition Is My Sanctuary: A Love Letter to Freedom / Lorgia GarcIa PeNa 116
Interlude. Abolitionist Practice: Bringing Our Imagination to Life / Veronika Zablotsky 131
Part II. The End of Humanitarianism
6. "Mujer Migrante Memorial (MMM)" and Necro-Art / Maite Zubiaurre 135
7. From Camp to Commons: Infrastructures of Decolonial Solidarity in Europe / Charalampos Tsavdaroglou and Maria Kaika 155
8. Humanitarian Racism / Saree Makdisi 176
9. trans/BORDER/ing (an un-play 4 accompaniment) / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez 196
10. Postcoloniality, Race, and the Ruse of Asylum: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 214
Interlude. Sanctuary and Solidarity: Resisting the US War on Refugees and Migrants / Veronika Zablotsky 231
Part III. Freedom and Fugitivity
11. Fugitive Relation and Errant Social Reproduction: A Note / Sarah Haley 235
12. An Oceanic International in Catastrophic Times / Sharad Chari 249
13. Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams / SA Smythe 266
14. Dispossession and Its Aftermath: The Sites of Black Indigenous Fugitivity / Kyle Mays 294
15. Freedom's Revenge, or, Toward Liberation / Rinaldo Walcott 309
Interlude. Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool / Veronika Zablotsky 323
Conclusion. Sanctuary and the Praxis of Solidarity / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Leisy J. Abrego 325
Acknowledgments 341
Contributors 343
Index 353