"Bodies Across Borders" is an insightful anthology examining the multiple geographies of cross-border health care mobility encouraged by advances in transport, information technology, and biotechnologies (cryopreservation, immunosuppressive drugs, DNA sequencing), as well as by variegated national regulations and uneven regional development (between the Global South and the Global North, rural and urban areas).

In this piece we join with others to call for a renewed commitment to the practices and principles of Sanctuary, now on an even larger scale. We offer here a Manifesto for radical action: the formation of a Global Sanctuary Collective.

January 25th, 2017. Newly elected US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming at the construction of the so often announced 3,200km long wall along the Mexican border, adding to the existing hundreds of km of material barriers already in place. Trump declared that “a nation without borders is not a nation. Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders.”

The referendum result has raised questions of home and, in some cases, identity. It has also begun to reshape the lives of the Seniors Club members, alongside other retired British people I have met. The financial implications of the referendum result on these people’s everyday lives is already visible.

We possess the very documents, legal and consular representation, connection to domestic constituencies, and—lets face it—phenotypical characteristics—which guarantee protection from the more brutal forms of immigration enforcement processes and which our unauthorized colleagues lack. So why don’t we refuse to hand over our passport to an official on arrival?