Current price: $44.95Sarah Bruhn Holding Home
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Join us for an evening with local RI author, Dr. Sarah Bruhn, to discuss her latest book HOLDING ON TO HOME: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary. Sarah will be in conversation with Yolanda Macias, Associate Director and Co-Founder of Conexión Latina. This event is free and open to all. We kindly ask you to RSVP and share with your friends. 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 immigrant women’s care work—in their families, schools, and communities—makes real the promise of sanctuary. Through their resistive care work, immigrant women weave together an enduring fabric of protection that transforms inclusive policies into meaningful practices that support immigrant mothers as they nurture their children and loved ones. Holding On to Home reveals how these women confront both overt threats to sanctuary—anti-immigrant policies and increasingly violent and arbitrary immigration enforcement—alongside a less obvious threat to sanctuary, but one that widens inequality in our urban landscapes: gentrification. Tracing the meaning of sanctuary across shifting political contexts, Sarah Bruhn powerfully demonstrates how immigrant women resist these forces of exclusion to lay claim to their right to create a home and to belong in our shared cities. Dr. Sarah Bruhn is a researcher, teacher, and writer focusing on how public policies impact immigrant families, shaping their opportunities for inclusion in the United States. Her book, Holding On to Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary, examines how immigrant women use their carework – in their families, schools, and communities – to make real the protections of sanctuary, even in the face of an anti-immigrant federal government and rapidly rising housing costs. Sarah received her PhD in Education from Harvard University. She grew up in Middletown, Rhode Island and started her career as a public-school teacher in Washington, DC and Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Her students continue to motivate her work today. Sarah is the proud mother of three kids and two cats and loves swimming in the ocean, any chance she can get, any time of year. Yolanda “Yoli” Macías, a native of Mexico City, moved to Newport in 2014. She obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration, specializing in tourism at “La Universidad del Valle de México” in Mexico City. Working as an office assistant at San José Church since 2015 she has been working with the Latino community for 6 years. Yolanda is a founding member of Conexión Latina Newport, an organization that seeks to educate, support, empower and advocate for the Hispanic community in Newport. Yoli is a 2023 graduate of Leadership RI and serves on the board of the St Vincent dePaul Society at St Joseph’s Church.
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