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- Title
Sanctuary Inter/rupted : Borders, illegalization, and unbelonging.
- Authors
Fakhrashrafi, Mitra; Gilbert, Emily; Kirk, Jessica P.
- Abstract
Key Messages: Sanctuary Inter/rupted, a group exhibit by Way Past Kennedy Road, explored issues of internal borders, illegalization, and unbelonging in Toronto.We focus on how artists in the Sanctuary Inter/rupted exhibit unsettled whitewashing logics of belonging and contested the limits of liberal sanctuary city movements.We expand the ways that racial justice is understood and practiced in sanctuary city movement organizing. In this paper, we engage with the multidisciplinary artistic works of Sanctuary Inter/rupted, a group exhibit that explored issues of internal borders, illegalization, and unbelonging in Toronto. Black, Indigenous, and racialized artists complicated Toronto's sanctuary city legislation, extending conversations on everyday deportability and the ways that illegalization is mapped on the body, regardless of status. Existing literature on borders shows that cities are important sites for the making and unmaking of illegality as internal borders tend to be made visible through daily barriers that migrant and/or refugee and/or racialized people face when accessing city services. We begin by tracing a burgeoning critical literature on sanctuary city movements across North America and the dangerous collusions between local police and national border enforcement. We then focus on how artists in Sanctuary Inter/rupted unsettled whitewashed theorizations of belonging and contested the limits of ahistorical and liberal sanctuary city movements. We note ways the artists refuse to reaffirm the multicultural nation and draw on a panel discussion at the exhibit to identify alternative ways people and places are reimagined as "sanctuaries." In accounting for internal and intimate bordering of the city and the limits of claims for belonging in white settler society, we will be better equipped to expand the understanding of border illegalization in Canada and how racial justice is practiced in sanctuary city movement organizing.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; ART; SANCTUARY cities; RACIAL profiling in law enforcement
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2019, Vol 63, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12510