Linda Rabben is associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present, and Future of Sanctuary and Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers’ Stories2. Sanctuary’s Beginnings3. A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum 5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law 6. The Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue 7. The Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum 8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom 9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond 10. The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy 11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements 12. The News from Tucson Afterword | Does Asylum Have a Future? Appendix NotesReferencesIndexIllustrations follow page

Linda Rabben is associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present, and Future of Sanctuary and Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers’ Stories2. Sanctuary’s Beginnings3. A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum 5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law 6. The Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue 7. The Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum 8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom 9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond 10. The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy 11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements 12. The News from Tucson Afterword | Does Asylum Have a Future? Appendix NotesReferencesIndexIllustrations follow page