Abstract
Following the 2016 Presidential election, invocations of sanctuary were everywhere. Calls for sanctuary campuses, sanctuary cities, sanctuary streets and renewed interest in offering physical sanctuary to undocumented migrants in places of worship suffused political organizing and service work across the country. As an ancient practice present in most major religious traditions, sanctuary is grounded in the belief in a transcendent moral authority that justifies decisions by communities of faith to offer refuge, safety, and protection to those who are most vulnerable to state power. Sanctuary People explores how faith communities, local activists, and service providers in Ohio drew on the language and practice of sanctuary to characterize their responses to what felt like unrelenting instances of family separation, displacement, and increased economic and social vulnerability due to immigrant detention, (un)natural disasters, and economic and political crises within Latina/o communities from 2016-2020. By focusing on efforts to help largely Mexican and Central American families affected by immigrant detention and Puerto Ricansdisplaced in the wake of Hurricane María, this book reveals the ways faith communities, activists, and community leaders created new strategies to address the increasingly precarious contexts in which Latina/o people live, and how they are imagining and enacting new forms of solidarity. This study also highlights the ways people drew on decades of individual and collective faith-based movements that laid the foundation for creative, courageous and resilient responses to state-sanctioned policies and practices that heightened Latinas/os and others’ vulnerability. Becoming sanctuary is rooted in a commitment to accompaniment and solidarity that leads people to build meaningful relationships and coalitions across differences of class, race, ethnicity, gender, language, religion, education, and citizenship status to strengthen and support the most vulnerable in moments of uncertainty, danger, and hopeful possibilities.
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