“We Always Have Been and Always Will Be a Sanctuary City” : Cities as Righteous Actors in the U.S. Civil Sphere

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya. “We Always Have Been and Always Will Be a Sanctuary City” : Cities as Righteous Actors in the U.S. Civil Sphere. In Carlo Tognato, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Jeffrey C. Alexander. The Courage for Civil Repair : Narrating the Righteous in International Migration. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 231-262. Cultural Sociology. ISBN 978-3-030-44589-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44590-4_9. 2020.

Basic information

• Original name: “We Always Have Been and Always Will Be a Sanctuary City” : Cities as Righteous Actors in the U.S. Civil Sphere
• Authors: JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya (840 United States of America, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Cham, Switzerland, The Courage for Civil Repair : Narrating the Righteous in International Migration, p. 231-262, 32 pp. Cultural Sociology, 2020.
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50401 Sociology
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/20:00116261
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-3-030-44589-8
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44590-4_9
• Keywords in English: sanctuary cities; migration; civil sphere; narrative battle; San Francisco
• Tags: rivok, topvydavatel
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

In the face of multiple threats to have federal funding withheld from “sanctuary cities,” many such jurisdictions across the United States have dug in their heels to defend their policies. This demonstration of civil solidarity has strongly echoed throughout the City of San Francisco’s history as a place of sanctuary and non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities. In this chapter, I unpack the ways in which the city is an actor truly “righteous” in regard to its policies on immigrants, working to foster inclusiveness among all its residents in a context of hostility and indifference. I outline the discursive contours of the “narrative battle” between the City of San Francisco and the Trump administration through the disaggregation of three themes – public safety or protection from harm, the idea of prosperity or economic success, and the quintessential civil value, the rule of law, as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Links

• MUNI/A/1068/2018, interní kód MU: Name: Migration and Social Inequality: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGSI)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

• MUNI/A/1157/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Migration and Contemporary Societies: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGSOC)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A