Kathy Quick
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Professor, University of Minnesota
Conference Participation
Lightning Round II: Impact of Government and Community Interventions
on Reducing Inequality
Paper: Public Safety Framings in the Frictious Space of Federal Immigration and Sanctuary Cities
Abstract: This paper will consider framings and reframings of “sanctuary cities” in policy and political debates about federal immigration actions in the US today. Employing ethnographic methods, I examine shifts in how “sanctuary cities” are used as a resource for defining and redefining the nature of concerns and policy options relating to human rights, constitutional rights, and the future of democracy. I will examine these shifts longitudinally from early sanctuary city policies through their active renegotiation by contesting parties today, with a particular focus on Minnesota as an ongoing, revelatory case of the politics and management of policing in the US.
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Biography: Kathy Quick is the Gross Family Chair and a Professor of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, an Academic Co-Director of the University-wide Center for Integrative Leadership, and a State Specialist in Leadership and Civic Engagement with University of Minnesota Extension. Dr. Quick’s focus is bringing together people with diverse perspectives to work on high-stakes, complex, and often contentious public policy problems. Since 2016, she has centered her work on how different people define and experience public safety.
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