The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Conceptualized at a time of resurgent white nationalism, this volume not only critically interrogates right-wing xenophobia but also the liberal ruse of asylum and its place in Western humanism. Drawing on the liberatory histories and counter-cartographies of migrant movements and the intellectual traditions of the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial thought, and critical refugee studies, the contributors analyze the colonial-racial logics of humanitarian reason and its carceral geographies of camps and crossings. Whether analyzing guerrilla art projects that memorialize female migrants who died crossing the US-Mexico border, schools for undocumented students, housing solidarity movements in state-run camps in Greece, or transnational struggles for abolition, this collection foregrounds ideas and practices of fugitivity and freedom that refuse and reworld the West.
Contributors. Leisy Abrego, Damon Azali-Rojas, Amy Sara Carroll, Sharad Chari, Nicholas De Genova, Ricardo Dominguez, Lorgia GarcÍa-PeÑa, Sarah Haley, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Moon-Kie Jung, Maria Kaika, Saree Makdisi, Kyle T. Mays, Ananya Roy, Charles Sepulveda, SA Smythe, Vanessa E. Thompson, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, JoÃo H. Costa Vargas, Rinaldo Walcott, Veronika Zablotsky, Maite Zubiaurre
Foreword. Sanctuary Politics and the Role of the University in the Time of Trumpism / Ananya Roy and Maite Zubiaurre ix
Introduction. Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 1
Interlude. Asylum At the Borders of Humanitarianism / Ananya Roy 41
Part I. Abolition on Stolen Land
1. This Is an Incitement: Abolition on Stolen Land / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Damon Azali-Rojas 45
2. Beyond the Social Death of Conquest: Kuuyam and Healthy Human-Land Kinship(s) / Charles A. Sepulveda 59
3. Killing the Dead: Genocide and Antiblackness / Moon-Kie Jung and JoÃo H. Costa Vargas 77
4. From Minneapolis to Dessau, from Moria to Tripoli: Breathing, Resistance, and International Pathways of Abolition / Vanessa E. Thompson 96
5. Abolition Is My Sanctuary: A Love Letter to Freedom / Lorgia GarcÍa PeÑa 116
Interlude. Abolitionist Practice: Bringing Our Imagination to Life / Veronika Zablotsky 131
Part II. The End of Humanitarianism
6. “Mujer Migrante Memorial (MMM)” and Necro-Art / Maite Zubiaurre 135
7. From Camp to Commons: Infrastructures of Decolonial Solidarity in Europe / Charalampos Tsavdaroglou and Maria Kaika 155
8. Humanitarian Racism / Saree Makdisi 176
9. trans/BORDER/ing (an un-play 4 accompaniment) / Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez 196
10. Postcoloniality, Race, and the Ruse of Asylum: An Interview with Nicholas De Genova / Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky 214
Interlude. Sanctuary and Solidarity: Resisting the US War on Refugees and Migrants / Veronika Zablotsky 231
Part III. Freedom and Fugitivity
11. Fugitive Relation and Errant Social Reproduction: A Note / Sarah Haley 235
12. An Oceanic International in Catastrophic Times / Sharad Chari 249
13. Black Mediterranean Freedom Dreams / SA Smythe 266
14. Dispossession and Its Aftermath: The Sites of Black Indigenous Fugitivity / Kyle Mays 294
15. Freedom’s Revenge, or, Toward Liberation / Rinaldo Walcott 309
Interlude. Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool / Veronika Zablotsky 323
Conclusion. Sanctuary and the Praxis of Solidarity / Gaye Theresa Johnson and Leisy J. Abrego 325
Acknowledgments 341
Contributors 343
Index 353
