Holding On to Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary

Over twenty million Americans live in cities that have passed sanctuary policies to protect the rights of immigrants and their families. However, contentious public conversations surrounding sanctuary obscure what these policies actually mean to the immigrants they purport to serve, making it hard to see what strengthens the power of sanctuary and what undermines its protections.

Holding On to Home, based on five years of fieldwork and over one hundred in-depth interviews, illuminates how i...