The Legacy of Sanctuary: The Movement to End Immigration Detention in California Through Interfaith Organizing
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay pulls data from a larger research project exploring the tactics of interfaith organizing to end immigration detention and deportation in the state of California, utilizing a long-term participatory methodology named as activist accompaniment as research (Arriaga-Hernandez and Argenal 2022). The research shares how one organization, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, is investing in a long-term movement to shut down detention facilities in the state, and walk with families impacted by deportation. Utilizing abolition as a theoretical frame, the research pulls themes to demonstrate how the organization is not only looking at protection from harmful immigration systems, but also the abolition of specific structures of harm and how communities can heal and move forward in new ways. This essay focuses on one key tactic, that of pilgrimage.
Source: Peace Review
Authors: Amy Argenal, Tay Villaseñor
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Exile Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Koret Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4406264084