"She can't even see her shadow": The New Sanctuary Coalition's response to the criminalization of immigrants in New York

Focusing on the political aspects of sanctuary, this article offers a qualitative account of responses to the criminalization and long-standing racialized exclusion of immigrants. Fieldwork findings suggest that New York City's New Sanctuary Coalition (NSC) did not screen immigrants to distinguish between the worthy/deserving and the undeserving, nor did it create a boundary between the host and the guest; rather, it actively worked toward an abolitionist movement of expanded sanctuary.