Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba

Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice has protected undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation by offering them refuge in churches, where federal immigration agents to this day still fear to tread. In this lecture, Lloyd Barba, Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College, asks how these houses of worship in the 1980s protected migrants from immigration enforcement authorities. What histories and testimonies rendered such spaces sacred and lent houses of worship qualities of safe refuge? And what is the applicability of these practices today? Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 40877]

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Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba is an episode from Walter H. Capps Center (Audio) by UCTV.

This episode is 00:55:06 long.

This episode was published on Jul 26, 2025.

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