Abstract

SUAREZ AVILA, Paola Virginia. California’s Sanctuary Cities: local government political action in contemporary United States' public policy on migration. Migr. desarro [online]. 2017, vol.15, n.29, pp.51-70. ISSN 1870-7599.

This research is located within political anthropological studies regarding the political phenomenon of sanctuary cities and states, building on an analysis of historical and ethnographic data that facilitates an understanding of the way in which sanctuary cities have come into being since the 1980s until present-day. Specifically, it examines the city and county of San Francisco as a sanctuary city that has served as a political and socio-juridical model for other places in the United States, including California, which recently declared itself a sanctuary state.

Keywords : Local development; local government; political activism; migration and migratory public policy.

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