Linda Rabben: "Sanctuary and Asylum, Then and Now"

Linda Rabben is an author, human rights activist and associate research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She did field research in Brazil over a 25-year period and worked for Amnesty International, the Rainforest Foundation, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other NGOs on human rights, migration, environmental and international development issues. Since the late 1990s she has published seven books about human rights, including Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners. Her eighth book, 'Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History,' will be published by University of Washington Press in September 2016. She has spoken about migration issues to diverse audiences in the US and UK.

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