Resistance and Resilience: Community Responses to Immigration Enforcement

In 2018, the Society for Community Research & Action (SCRA) responded to the harsh realities of federal immigration enforcement in the United States and globally, including family separations, raids, detentions, and deportations.

The SCRA's statement highlighted the severe impacts these policies have on immigrants, their families, and communities. While documenting this harm was crucial, the focus of the statement also expanded to showcase the various ways immigrants and their allies resist oppression.

This resistance spans across individual and collective efforts within diverse settings such as community-based, faith-based, direct care, educational environments, municipalities, and even transnational organizations.

These settings play a vital role in supporting resistance by addressing both the oppressed and the systems of oppression through frameworks like social settings change, empowering environments, healing justice, and decolonization.

To delve deeper into the intricate dynamics of resistance and the role of various settings in fostering empowerment and justice, read and download the entire paper below.

American J of Comm Psychol - 2021 - Buckingham - The Roles of Settings in Supporting Immig.

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