On Resistance, Hunger Strikes, and Sanctuary

#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus

N., “Resistance,” pencil on paper. The Refugee Art Project

The **#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus** is a sixteen-part series of readings and tools to support education, research, and action to dissect and dismantle the U.S. immigration detention system. The syllabus is organized by theme and curated by historian [Tina Shull](https://medium.com/u/6e34ba3479d9) at [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)](http://endisolation.org).

Part Fourteen, “On Resistance,” provides readings, reports, and multimedia resources on the history of resistance to immigration detention and incarceration, including hunger strikes and the Sanctuary movement, as well as tools for resisting Trump’s deportation policies.

Readings

Edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Michelson, and Andrew Burridge.

- Hammer, Zoe, “Community, Identity, and Political Struggle: Challenging Immigrant Prisons in Arizona,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012. - Hill, Gord, [*500 Years of Indigenous Resistance*](http://www.powells.com/partner/37407/biblio/9781604861068?p_isbn)*. *PM Press, 2009. - Jaffe, Sarah, “[Beyond Good Immigrants: An Interview with Aly Wane](http://progressive.org/multimedia/beyond-good-immigrants-an-interview-with-aly-wane/),” *The Progressive*, March 2017. - Kateel, Subhash and Aarti Shahani, “Families for Freedom: Against Deportation and Delegalization,” in [*Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today*](https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Out-Other-Introduction-Immigration/dp/0231141297/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502930248%26sr=1-1%26keywords=keeping+out+the+other). Columbia University Press, 2008. - Kaplan, Esther,[ “Organizing Inside,”](https://www.poz.com/article/Organizing-Inside-1656-9407)*Poz Magazine*, November, 1998. - King, Martin Luther, Jr., [“Letter from Birmingham Jail,”](https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf) April 16, 1963. - Malcolm X and Alex Haley. [*The Autobiography of Malcolm X*](http://www.worldcat.org/title/autobiography-of-malcolm-x/oclc/26096589&referer=brief_results)*. *Random House: 1965. - McLeod, Allegra M., “[Immigration, Criminalization, and Disobedience](http://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol70/iss2/8),” *University of Miami Law Review* 70: 556, 2016. - Price, Joshua M., “A Politics for Our Time? Organizing against Jails,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Forced Passages by Dylan Rodríguez

- Rodríguez, Dylan. [*Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime*](https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/forced-passages)*. *University of Minnesota Press, 2006. - Shakur, Assata. [*Assata: An Autobiography*](http://www.worldcat.org/title/assata-an-autobiography/oclc/16713906&referer=brief_results). L. Hill, 1987. - Shimabukuro, Mira. [*Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/relocating-authority-japanese-americans-writing-to-redress-mass-incarceration/oclc/933434226&referer=brief_results). University of Colorado Press, 2015. - Sohi, Seema. [*Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America*](https://books.google.com/books?id=fCnnAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false). Oxford University Press, 2014. - “[The True Story of a Texas Prison Riot](https://www.thenation.com/article/the-true-story-of-a-texas-prison-riot/),” *The Nation*, June 2015. - Thompson, Heather Ann, [*Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy*](http://www.powells.com/book/blood-in-the-water-9780375423222%3Fp_isbn%26partnerid=37407)*. *Pantheon, 2016.

Undoing Border Imperialism, by Harsha Walia

- Viturro, Mariana, “¡La Policía, la Migra, la Misma Porquería! Popular Resistance to State Violence,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012. - Walia, Harsha, [*Undoing Border Imperialism*](https://www.akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html). AK Press, 2013.

Mohammad, coffee on paper. The Refugee Art Project

### Hunger Strikes

Readings:

https://imm-print.com/adelanto9-launch-hunger-strike-in-california-e189bbcdc26b

A Hunger Strikers Handbook: the story of a 2014 hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center:

https://imm-print.com/adelanto9-launch-hunger-strike-in-california-e189bbcdc26b

Sanctuary

Readings:

Podcast: “Church (Sanctuary Parts I and II), 99% Invisible:

https://imm-print.com/adelanto9-launch-hunger-strike-in-california-e189bbcdc26b

Searching for Sanctuary, Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Peoples Climate March, 2014. Photo Credit: CultureStrike on Instagram

### More News & Resources

Is it Possible to Resist Deportation in Trump’s America?”New York Times, May 2017.

How Local Leaders Can Resist Trump’s Deportation Regime,” The Nation, February 2017.

We Can Stop Trump’s Deportation Force. Here’s How” *Huffington Post, *2016.

Latino USA: “The Dream 9” and “Los Otros Dreamers”:

Meet the Latino activists who killed their city’s prison expansion deal,” Fusion, 2016.

https://imm-print.com/adelanto9-launch-hunger-strike-in-california-e189bbcdc26b