Sanctuary Encounters: Migrants, Frontier Making, and Transborder Struggles

Sanctuary Encounters traces migrants’ journeys across the corridor spanning Central America, Mexico, and the United States. Based on years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork within migrant caravans, grassroots shelters, civil associations, and networks of legal accompaniment, Martha Balaguera’s work offers a refugee critique of “sanctuary” from a transnational perspective. She posits that sanctuary is not just a state of protection enacted by civil society but a lived experience and set ...