Strange sanctuary: refugee sanctuary movements in late 20th century

难民不仅仅是英国官员或战后福利国家的行动和议程所支配的政治对象。相反，他们的生活，他们的愿望，他们的主张，他们的经历可以照亮我们对20世纪后期英国人权和国际主义承诺的深度和紧张局势的理解。我的博士学位涉及20世纪80年代和90年代初在英国的难民避难所运动，并将探索教会作为社区组织和统一的网站，跨民族，信仰和政治议程的工作。通过发展基于口头证词和档案遗迹的理解，我将利用神学辩论和政治理论的语料库，沿着最近对其他避难所运动的跨学科研究，来调查这些运动网络如何重新调整其参数，试图为法律的变革创造道德催化剂。通过分析这些从沮丧和希望中诞生的社区运动如何与政府的阶层争夺公共合法性，我的目标是揭示社会和政治进程，这些进程构成了“自上而下”和“自下而上”权力行使之间的协商互动。

Refugees are not merely objects of politics governed by the actions and agendas of British officials or a post-war welfare state. Rather, their lives, their aspirations, their claims, and their experiences can illuminate our understanding of the depth of, and tensions surrounding, human rights and internationalist commitments in late twentieth-century Britain. My PhD deals with the refugee sanctuary movement of the 1980s and early 1990s in Britain, and will explore the church as a site of community organisation and unification, working across nationalities, faiths, and political agendas. By developing an understanding based upon oral testimonies and archival remnants, I will draw upon a corpus of theological debates and political theory, along with recent interdisciplinary studies of other sanctuary campaigns, to investigate how these campaign networks reworked their parameters in attempts to create a moral catalyst for legal change. Through analysis of how these community campaigns born from dismay and hope wrestled for public legitimacy against the echelons of government, I aim to unveil the social and political processes that constitute negotiated interactions between "top down" and "bottom up" exercises of power.