Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/O Communities

＂This book explores the ways faith-based organizing among Latina/o communities in Ohio helped to create places of sanctuary, safety, and refuge from 2016-2020. It argues for a conceptualization of sanctuary that is capacious and captures the experiences of immigrants facing family separation and deportation as well as Puerto Rican migrants displaced from natural disasters, like Hurricane Marâia＂--

Gina M. Pérez is Professor in the Department of Comparative American Studies in Oberlin College. She is the author of Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream and co-editor with Alex Chávez of Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades.