Leah Sarat is professor at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on ways in which people draw upon religion to confront the physical, emotional and psychological challenges of migration. Her book, Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration and the Mexican Dream, centers on the relationship between migration and tourism in an Indigenous community in central Mexico. Sarat’s project “Faith Behind Bars: Encountering Immigrant Detention in Arizona” examines how chaplains, faith-based volunteers and immigrant detainees at Arizona’s Eloy Detention facility draw upon religious narratives and practices to explain, survive and resist the realities of immigration detention.
| Website | https://newsroom.asu.edu/expert/leah-sarat |
| Email address | mediarelations@asu.edu |
| Phone number | 480-965-3502 |
| Categories | Church & state, Crime & punishment, Ethics, Foreign policy, Government & politics, Law & courts, Migration, National security, Poverty & welfare, Race & ethnicity, Society & culture |
| Locations | Arizona, North America, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Languages | English, Spanish |