Categoria: Seminari e Convegni
Stato: Corrente
22 April 2026 at 4,00 pm

Beyond sanctuary: the humanism of a world in motion | By Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky

Beyond Sanctuary is an open access anthology edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky with Leisy J. Abrego, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Maite Zubiaurre that critically interrogates sanctuary and its place in Western humanism. Its authors accompany migrant justice struggles and draw on the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, and critical refugee studies.
The authors initiated this book during thefirst Trump presidency in order to understand and challenge unabashed attacks on sanctuary jurisdictions, many of them in liberal U.S. cities. Now with the return of Trumpism, suchcities, notably Los Angeles, are under militarized occupation and lawless rule as the white nationalist regime seeks to Make America White Again. Beyond Sanctuary brings together scholars and artists to take up the question of sanctuary not as a promise but rather as a problem. Thinking across the United States and Europe, it examines how the liberal democracies of the West treat racial others through systems of deadly borders and elusive asylum. Instead of a demand for the juridical protections of sanctuary or the comfort of hospitality, our work foregrounds the ideas and practices of those who are made fugitives and cast out into the world. We foreground these as migrant movements, intending the double meaning of movement as motion an drebellion.

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Veronika Zablotsky is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at FreieUniversität Berlin.


The meeting is part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series Spring 2026.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study around the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone.