Who provides the conditions for human life? : Sanctuary movements in Sweden as both contesting and working with state agencies
Lundberg, Anna LU
and Strange, Michael
(2016)
In Politics
37(3).
p.347-362
- Abstract
- This article analyses sanctuary initiatives intended to change the situation of ‘irregularised residents’. Through fieldwork, three main activities are identified: assistance for welfare services, alternatives to inaccessible services, and inventing new ways of organising togetherness in the city. The role of activists in the initiatives links to discussions within Critical Human Rights literature, which emphasise the anti-institutionalist origins of rights. Yet, a complex interplay also plays out through co-current resistance against the state’s migration policing and collaboration with city-level state agencies. Understanding this complex process is important to improving knowledge of both the politics of sanctuary and human rights.
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- Lundberg, Anna
LU
and Strange, Michael
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Politics
- volume
- 37
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85029160030
- ISSN
- 0263-3957
- DOI
- 10.1177/0263395716661343
- language
- English
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