Description: "This book explores the power of faith in mobilizing resistance to restrictive immigration policies in the US by analyzing the strategies, successes, and failures of faith-based immigrant rights organizations"--
Brief description: Alexia Salvatierra is the Academic Dean of the Centro Latino and the Associate Professor of Mission and Global Transformation at Fuller Theological Seminary and co-author of Buried Seeds: Learning from the Vibrant Resiliency of Marginalized Christian Communities.
Review Quotes: "The combination of deep-insider knowledge and involvement with several groups across many years allows for the telling of a different story about religion and immigration than those that focus on religious opposition to immigrant support.... Goes a long way toward developing a deeper understanding of the potential that faith-based social movements possess to create positive social change, and exactly what that change could entail."--Richard Flory, Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California