Solo el Pueblo Salva al Pueblo: Schools and Communities Response to ICE Raids in California

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 11:45 am - Gold 3
  In Roundtable Session: Living Liminality: Navigating Belonging, Resistance, and Care in Immigrant Educational Journeys

Abstract

This study analyzes publicly available documents to understand how schools, community organizations, local governments, and media outlets responded to the ICE raids in California. Through a critical discourse analysis, we focus on how schools and communities across three counties in California (LA, OC, and Alameda) have built on legacies of resistance to protect and advocate for Latinx immigrant communities. Importantly, this study extends Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth model and Thompson's (2024) community resilience concept to illustrate how various actors protect their communities. We find that educators and community organizations lead the way in enacting sustained collective actions and resistance while those with more political power (e.g. district leaders) offered more uneven responses that are more rhetorical and less action oriented.

Authors

• Martha C. Franco, California State University - Long Beach

• Stephany Cuevas, Chapman University