%0 Journal Article
%T Immigrant Populations and Sanctuary Schools
%A Leigh Patel
%J Journal of Literacy Research
%@ 1554-8430
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1086296X18802417
%X In the summer months of 2018, the world watched as thousands of young children were separated from their families and detained by immigration officials at the border between the United States and Mexico. On television screens and smartphone updates, it seemed the world collectively gasped at this cruel familial trauma and asked, ¡°what can we do? How can we be in solidarity?¡± In this essay, I situate this state practice in a long-standing tradition of governance of who has rights and who does not. I also provide specific challenges for material solidarity that reaches beyond media soundbites
%K immigrant education
%K refugee literacies
%K fugitivity
%K sanctuary
%K policy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1086296X18802417