Abstract
Insofar as border policing and wall construction symbolize the reassertion of nation-state sovereignty, the fact that they exacerbate the problems they seek to contain makes them complicit in undermining the very sovereignty they seek to assert. Rather than lament the loss of nation-state sovereignty, however, this essay takes this loss as an opportunity to reconceptualize the concept of sovereignty itself, and does so in relation to the current resurgence of “sanctuary” in the US political field. Far from functioning simply as a challenge to nation-state sovereignty, sanctuary can serve as a site from which to think and enact the creative power of collective praxis; a kind of generic sovereignty.
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