Excursus: Ambivalences of a Sanctuary City. Rethinking borders: insights into the struggles of Toronto’s ‘Sanctuary City’ policy

Schilliger, Sarah (2019). Excursus: Ambivalences of a Sanctuary City. Rethinking borders: insights into the struggles of Toronto’s ‘Sanctuary City’ policy. In: Solidarity Cities in Europe. Charity or Pathways to Citizenship: A New Urban Policy Approach (pp. 95-110). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

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Based on the North American model, Sarah Schilliger examines the successes and challenges that come with official ‘Sanctuary City’ status. With half of its 3 million inhabitants born outside of Canada, Toronto became the first Canadian city to commit to a Sanctuary City policy in 2013, and serves as the blueprint for the German Solidarity City network. Toronto’s Sanctuary City status was the result of a 10-year struggle fought by a broad alliance of civil society organisations. Under the umbrella of the ‘Access without Fear’ campaign, these organisations fought to stop deportations and to achieve residence security and fearless access to legal and social services for people with precarious legal status. Sarah Schilliger shows that a Sanctuary City also requires sufficient budget funds, public awareness campaigns and further education measures for officials and employees of public institutions if the security and protection of precarious status migrants are to remain more than just an empty promise.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

09 Interdisciplinary Units > Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG)

UniBE Contributor:

Schilliger, Sarah Berit

ISBN:

978-3-9818987-7-4

Publisher:

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Language:

English

Submitter:

Dr. Sarah Berit Schilliger

Date Deposited:

31 Mar 2023 16:29

Last Modified:

31 Mar 2023 16:29

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

urban citizenship, solidarity city, sanctuary city, migration

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/181273

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/181273

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