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Situates the reader in Glasgow, a sanctuary city host to the largest population of asylum seekers in the UK. This chapter illustrates how sanctuary inadvertently functions as a ‘politics of ease,’ ameliorating rather than undoing the problems associated with protracted waiting.
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Bagelman, J.J. (2016). A Politics of Ease. In: Sanctuary City: A Suspended State. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480385_3
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