"They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!"

Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement

Melvin Delgado

While the concept of cities and places of refuge, or sanctuary cities, is as ancient as history itself, the past few years has given rapid rise to a new, related phenomenon in the U.S.: the anti-sanctuary city movement. As of 2018, over 500 U.S. municipalities and several states have adopted anti-sanctuary city policies.

How do we explain the rapid rise of this movement?

This book examines the social, political, and racial underpinnings of this radical new movement, and what members of targeted communities can do to counteract its corrosive effects. This book accomplishes five goals:

Conceptually and descriptively gives form to the anti-sanctuary movement.
Identifies trends and reasons for successes and failures of this movement.
Draws lessons for social justice advocates in countering this movement.
Presents a series of cities illustrating how and why this movement has unfolded in certain geographical areas.
Presents recommendations for anticipating the evolution of this movement and countering its destructive impacts in communities where the anti-sanctuary is taking root.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 300 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-5381-4715-3 • Hardback • August 2021 • $130.00 • (£100.00)

978-1-5381-4716-0 • Paperback • August 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-5381-4717-7 • eBook • August 2021 • $42.50 • (£33.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Sociology / Urban, Social Science / Social Geography, Social Science / Social Movements

"They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!"

Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement

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Summary

While the concept of cities and places of refuge, or sanctuary cities, is as ancient as history itself, the past few years has given rapid rise to a new, related phenomenon in the U.S.: the anti-sanctuary city movement. As of 2018, over 500 U.S. municipalities and several states have adopted anti-sanctuary city policies.

How do we explain the rapid rise of this movement?

This book examines the social, political, and racial underpinnings of this radical new movement, and what members of targeted communities can do to counteract its corrosive effects. This book accomplishes five goals:
1. Conceptually and descriptively gives form to the anti-sanctuary movement.
2. Identifies trends and reasons for successes and failures of this movement.
3. Draws lessons for social justice advocates in countering this movement.
4. Presents a series of cities illustrating how and why this movement has unfolded in certain geographical areas.
5. Presents recommendations for anticipating the evolution of this movement and countering its destructive impacts in communities where the anti-sanctuary is taking root.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 300 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-5381-4715-3 • Hardback • August 2021 • $130.00 • (£100.00)

978-1-5381-4716-0 • Paperback • August 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-5381-4717-7 • eBook • August 2021 • $42.50 • (£33.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Sociology / Urban, Social Science / Social Geography, Social Science / Social Movements

Author

Melvin Delgado, MSW, PhD, is professor of social work at Boston University. He is the former chair of Macro Practice. He has over forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on urban population groups, specifically within the Latinx community. Delgado’s research has addressed a variety of social issues and needs, and he has published over thirty books on urban community practice topics. He is currently the editor of the Oxford University book series on social justice and youth community practice. He is the author of Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads, Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence, and many other books.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2: Historical Overview of Anti-Immigration/Anti-Sanctuary Movement
Chapter 3: A Portrait of the Unauthorized: Demon or Friend?
Chapter 4: Nation-State Responses to the Undocumented
Chapter 5: National Level
Chapter 6: State Level
Chapter 7: Local Level
Chapter 8: Alabama (State and Local Levels)
Chapter 9: Texas (State and Local Levels)
Chapter 10: California (State and Local Context)
Chapter 11: Strategies for Countering the Anti-Sanctuary Movement
Chapter 12: The Evolving Future of the Anti-Sanctuary Movement

Reviews

In "They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!": Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement, author Melvin Delgado provides an extensive history of sanctuary cities and the current anti-sanctuary movement. Through his discussion on sanctuary cities, Delgado helps readers recognize why understanding human plights and needs is necessary, and the role each of us play in ensuring a humanistic society.

— Ruby Gourdine, Howard University School of Social Work

Features

Only book specifically focused on the anti-sanctuary movement.

Up-to-date account of major legislative and legal actions involving the anti-sanctuary movement.

Provides readers with action steps to counter the anti-sanctuary movement