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Anna Lundberg.

Anna Lundberg

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Anna Lundberg.

Who provides the conditions for human life? : Sanctuary movements in Sweden as both contesting and working with state agencies

Author

  • Anna Lundberg
  • Michael Strange

Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

347-362

Publication/Series

Politics

Volume

37

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Law and Society
  • International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0263-3957