Another important and engaging title published by Duke University Press and indexed by Southwest Humanities is Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Published in August 2025, Beyond Sanctuary critically examines how Western liberal democracies respond to—and often fail—the promise of sanctuary that they outwardly present to racialized others. Far from offering genuine refuge, state mechanisms of asylum and humanitarianism frequently reinforce racial, colonial, and carceral systems. Drawing from a rich blend of theoretical frameworks and spanning Black radical traditions, Indigenous studies, postcolonial thought, and critical refugee studies, the essays in this collection confront how humanitarian logic and the politics of “the camp” reproduce oppressive structures, even as they purport to relieve suffering. Contributions range widely, from guerrilla art memorializing women who died crossing the U.S.–Mexico border, to solidarity efforts among undocumented students and campaigning for humane housing in Greek camps, framing sanctuary not as a secured status, but a radical practice of fugitivity, resistance, and re-worlding the West. For more information, please see the publisher’s website here.
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