Politics and Society
- Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
- Right of asylum or political asylum
- Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple
- Insane asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing those deemed "insane"
- Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
- Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
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