This article explores sanctuary in Wales, focusing on the Welsh Government’s recent declaration to become a Nation of Sanctuary (NoS), and identifying how the national scale provides an alternative locus for progressive sanctuary measures. In revealing the nation’s emergence as another crucial site of sanctuary, the work reconceptualizes the nation’s place in sanctuary policies and practices in two ways: (i) it locates sanctuary through a national scale, thus moving beyond the city/state dichotomy that has dominated explanations of sanctuary, and (ii) it shows the importance of decoupling the nation-state compound while simultaneously integrating the nation(al) into discussions on sanctuary without being bound to the state or xenophobic populism. In showing how “nations against the state” can participate in sanctuary measures, we expand the current understanding of where sanctuary can be found, and capture the various forms of national belonging and identities that exist within plurinational states, including alternative, progressive forms of civic belonging. This is particularly significant in light of the tightening of state immigration policies, greater regulation of immigrant entry at state borders, and continuation of restrictive citizenship policies witnessed in recent years, which have ignited sanctuary measures aimed at creating safe spaces beyond the reach of state measures.

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在庇护实践中重新概念化国家：迈向进步的、关系化的国家政治？


本文探讨了威尔士的庇护所，重点介绍了威尔士政府最近宣布成为庇护之国 （NoS），并确定了国家规模如何为渐进式庇护措施提供替代场所。在揭示国家作为另一个重要避难所地点的出现时，这项工作以两种方式重新概念化了国家在避难所政策和实践中的地位：（i） 它通过国家范围定位避难所，从而超越了主导对避难所解释的城市/国家二分法，以及 （ii） 它展示了将民族-国家复合体脱钩的重要性，同时将民族纳入关于避难所的讨论，而不受国家或仇外的民粹主义。在展示“反对国家的国家”如何参与庇护措施时，我们扩展了当前对在哪里可以找到庇护的理解，并捕捉了多民族国家中存在的各种形式的国家归属感和身份，包括替代性的、进步的公民归属感形式。鉴于各州移民政策收紧，对各州边境移民入境的监管加强，以及近年来持续实施的限制性公民身份政策，这一点尤为重要，这些措施引发了旨在创造国家措施无法触及的安全空间的庇护措施。