Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jan 2019 Open Access

“I Never Intended It To Become a Symbol of Resistance”: An Interview with Xavier Maciel about the Sanctuary Campus Movement

Jens Lloyd

Abstract

Since the 2016 U.S. election, faculty, staff, and students at more than 200 colleges and universities have petitioned for their campuses to be declared as sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants, a preemptive move that pits academic institutions against federal authorities. Like many in academia, I first became aware of the sanctuary campus movement in the weeks following the 2016 election, when a link to a petition arrived in my inbox. Around this time, I began to encounter news stories about the movement and its various manifestations (Cleek 2017; Machado 2017), as well as indications that the movement was provoking conversations about the relationship between higher education and the broader civic tapestry (Xia 2017), the history of sanctuary spaces (Allen 2016), and the contemporary legal complexities of creating such spaces (Olivas 2016).

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2019-01-01
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10.59236/rjv18i2pp151-165
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