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Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people.Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the activity in three of the nearly 100 shelters along a unique humanitarian trail that many Central Americans take to reach the United States. She outlines the constraints faced by these sites and their potential to create social transformation and considers how and why migration security is currently framed and managed as both a criminal and humanitarian issue.Shelter on the Journey explores the politics of the shelters, their social world, and the dynamics of charity and solidarity, as well as the need for humanitarian assistance and advocacy for dignified and free transit migration.

Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe and Africa.

This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.

Seven children from war-torn countries of Syria, Libya, Kosovo and Serbia, flee as refugees to stay in Berlin. Kristin Frohnapfel, their shelter manager, protects them as their surrogate mother, but can she protect them against a wave of challenges sweeping Germany? Nazi-sympathizers march against the refugees, supported by local Germans. Hundreds of shelters are burned down by arsonists. Is their camp next? Will Germany allow them to stay or expel them? The kids change Kirstin's life in ways she had not expected.

In recent decades, a growing number of cities in the United States have adopted \"sanctuary policies\" that limit local participation in federal immigration enforcement. Existing scholarship has focused on their legality and effect, especially with respect to our nation's immigration laws. Largely overlooked, however, is the local process through which sanctuary policies are designed and the reasons why cities choose to adopt them through city ordinances, mayoral orders, or employee handbooks. This Article argues that municipal sanctuary policies are far from uniform, and their variation reflects the different local interests and institutional actors behind their adoption and implementation. More specifically, municipal sanctuary policies can be broadly categorized into three models: administrative sanctuary, political sanctuary, and silent sanctuary. Each of these models reflects a specific approach in how cities choose to balance their political relationship with residents, their administrative relationship with employees, and their intergovernmental relations with the state and federal government. Moreover, these three models correspond with different eras in sanctuary's development and anti-sanctuary responses at the state and federal level. This typology highlights the structural and institutional forces that have contributed to the diversity of sanctuary policies in the United States. In addition, it calls into question many of the assumptions in the sanctuary literature about the assessment of sanctuary policies, the goals of anti-sanctuary efforts, and the effect of all of this on local policymaking.

The notion of a country of former habitual residence - as the functional equivalent of a country of nationality for stateless individuals and the reference point for the 'being persecuted' inquiry in art 1A(2) of the 'Convention relating to the Status of Refugees' - is an ill fit for stateless children born outside the country of nationality or former habitual residence of their parent(s). On a plain, ordinary reading of the definition, stateless children born in the country of refuge have neither a nationality nor a former habitual residence and fall outside the ambit of the refugee definition. In a similar fashion, stateless children born prior to arrival in the country of refuge (but not in the country of nationality or designated country of former habitual residence of their parent(s)) are unable to establish the country of reference element, as read with all other indicia of refugeehood. In the context of concurrent family claims, this predicament exposes an obvious inequity of access to refugee status and a consequent risk of refoulement to serious harm, as such children may face return to the country of nationality or former habitual residence of their parent(s). While the dominant tide of jurisprudence supports a literal interpretation of the notion, Professors Michelle Foster and Helene Lambert have identified a purposive pathway, better aligned with the humanitarian scope of the refugee definition. For applicants who are stateless children born outside of the country of nationality or former habitual residence of their parent(s), this interpretation allows for the determination of country of reference in combination with forward-looking considerations on their returnability and risk of persecution upon return. This article endorses such an interpretation and comprehensively charts a child-sensitive approach to applying the criteria for refugee status (historically formulated from an adult-oriented perspective), by exploring what child-specific interests might better inform the notion in the context of the individualised refugee assessment of concurrent family claims.

The United Nations high commissioner for refugees is currently seeing larger displacements than at any other time on record. The latest figures show 65.3 million displaced persons, 21.3 million of whom are refugees. New Zealand has a proud and successful history of refugee resettlement, including resettling Polish children fleeing the Second World War, Cambodian refugees fleeing the Killing Fields and more recently families fleeing conflict in Syria. However, New Zealand has the capacity to do more, both within our borders and as a potential regional and global leader in refugee protection.

The latest developments in the Middle East region are of great concern to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The current level of violence, displacement and destruction in and around Syria is unprecedented in a region that has already suffered conflict and instability for most of its modern history. According to recent figures released by the United Nations (UN), over 100,000 people have died from the fighting in Syria; more than six million have been forced to flee their homes, including two million who have found refuge in neighbouring countries. This is putting an immense strain on host communities and governments.

Living with precarious or undocumented status places individuals in a state of vulnerability. Often, illegalized individuals will avoid seeking essential and community services out of fear that lack of status will be discovered by authorities and deportation might be the result. This thesis illustrates the approach of Edmonton municipal authorities to improve city programs and services accessibility for undocumented individuals through the “Access without fear to municipal services” policy. This research will explore whether this policy supports the formation of a collective urban community that does not distinguish between residents with and without status, asking whether this translates into migrants’ full and equal participation in urban society, or if this policy is merely a symbolic intervention without practical effects on the life of migrants. This research project employs qualitative research methods consisting of semi-structured interviews and policy analysis. Data collection for this thesis took place over a period of four weeks in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Using the data, this thesis argues that “Access without Fear” policy is still a symbolic way to help ‘non-status’ individuals to better cope with their circumstances although it is a first step in the right direction to improve the life of non-status individuals.