Event



Book Talk with Domenic Vitiello

The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia
Domenic Vitiello
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Book Cover of The Sanctuary City

Domenic Vitiello introduces his new book, The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia in a book talk in October.

In his new book The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello discusses the idea of sanctuary that means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It contains a much wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable immigrants. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often through the work of social movements and community organizations or civil society.

 

Click here for more information on the book talk and Domenic's newest publication.

The Sanctuary City is available for free download as an ebook or on paperback at Cornell University Press and other booksellers such as Amazon.

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Domenic Vitiello is an Associate Professor of City Planning & Urban Studies here at Penn and this event is co-sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research.