Imagining a Sanctuary City: Chicago’s New Arrivals in Anthropological, Historical, and Legal Contexts
Imagining a Sanctuary City: Chicago’s New Arrivals in Anthropological, Historical, and Legal Contexts
This project will employ ethnographic research, legal case study, and oral history to record and analyze the experiences of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants in Chicago as well as the volunteers, city workers, and activists supporting them.
This project emerges from our participation in volunteer efforts to assist some of the nearly 42,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in Chicago since August 2022. Through ethnographic research, legal case study, and oral history, we seek to record and analyze the experiences of both arriving and ...