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Sergio González

@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
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Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.

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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AUTHOR COPIES ARE HERE! We're still a few weeks out from Sanctuary in America’s official release date, but in the meantime @elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are enjoying finally being able to hold this labor of love.
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As a scholar of the sanctuary movement, I have to say that this is an amazing year for work on sanctuary, in large part thanks to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social !!
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Forthcoming book on the history of the sanctuary movement by IEHS members @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social: Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants—And Why It Still Matters global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New book edited by IEHS members @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social : Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the Sanctuary Movement (New York University Press, 2026) nyupress.org/978147983370...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you to the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University for publishing an excerpt of @elprofebarba.bsky.social and my forthcoming trade book with Oxford University Press, Sanctuary in America! canopyforum.org/2026/08/07/s...
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"Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants–And Why It Still Matters" by Lloyd D. Barba and Sergio M. González - Canopy Forum
Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants–and Why It Still MattersLloyd D. Barba and Sergio M. González This article includes excerpts from Sanctuary in America...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends - @elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are excited to share news about another publication we've got coming out this fall, “Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants—And Why It Still Matters” published with Oxford University Press!
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends, @elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the publication of “Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement” coming this November from @nyupress.bsky.social.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This isn't the first time Door County has dealt with an urgent labor need and turned to migrant labor. Visit the Ephraim Historical Foundation this summer and see our special exhibit - "Fields of Arrival: Migration, Work, and Memory in Door County" - to learn more! www.jsonline.com/story/money/...
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Work visa delays are crippling Door County businesses well into summer
Some business owners suspected that the Trump administration is deliberately trying to limit legal foreign labor, which the county desperately needs.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Last day to get your *free* e-book of STRANGERS NO LONGER: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social! mailchi.mp/illinois/10u... #LatinxStudies #Religion #Midwest #Free #Ebook
May's Free E-Book!
Strangers No Longer
Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
By Sergio M. González
University of Illinois Press
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Free e-book of IEHS member @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social 's book from University of Illinois Press: mailchi.mp/illinois/10u...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Get a FREE copy of my latest book this month, courtesy of @illinoispress.bsky.social. It's free, really!
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Glad to see Jay Caspian Kang covering the history of the Sanctuary Movement and the broader story of sacred resistance in @newyorker.com. There's a crop of new scholarship on the topic - including 2 books I'm co-authoring with @elprofebarba.bsky.social, out this fall - that should be of interest!
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
He said this in an interview published yesterday: "It’s actually healing for people to see the people who represent the church and represent God in public really care about this and that they’re not going to shrink from the violence. That they’re not afraid of what’s going to happen."
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A conversation with Michael Woolf about ICE and Chicago – Baptist News Global
He joins a long line of clergy who have, in recent weeks, been assaulted by militarized agents from ICE and state police.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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lizrplatt.bsky.social @lizrplatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Such important reporting by @jackjenkins.me. If you want a legal analysis on religious liberty and immigration, check out our report. lawrightsreligion.org/our-work/rel... (Also, Rev. Kardon in the article was my college roommate and not at all surprised to see her doing this amazing work).
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Report on Religious Liberty & Immigration — The Law, Rights & Religion Project
This report is intended as a practical tool for immigration attorneys, criminal defense lawyers, civil rights advocates, faith-based organizations, and houses of worship. Thumbnail image courtesy ...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Accompaniment, as theologian Roberto Goizueta notes, is “not an abstraction, or a merely ‘spiritual’ reality.” It instead requires a “mutual bodily presence” from all participants who have agreed to work in this partnership.
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PRRI @prri.org · 12/09/2025
New: 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellows Anita Huizar-Hernandez, @elprofebarba.bsky.social, and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social spoke to @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social about the oral history project they conducted to better understand shifts in Americans' views on immigration www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71r...
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Good Faith Weekly, 09/12/2025 - Political Unrest + Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Lloyd Barba & Sergio G...
YouTube video by Good Faith Media
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Honored for the dedicated episode from @99pi.org about my book and open borders. Give it a listen here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/633-... Special thanks to producer Lasha Madan. @haymarketbooks.org
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Open Borders - 99% Invisible
A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/07/2025
Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right. I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
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Faith leaders, lawmakers argue GOP bill benefits the ultra-wealthy by hurting the poor
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘May your will be done, and may this bill be killed,’ said the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ.
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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access
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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
As I told the Journal Sentinel, any time we’ve seen immigration officers conceal their identities it’s been accompanied by a further degradation of general public trust in law enforcement. This escalation does nothing but sow fear in our communities. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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Is it normal or legal for federal ICE officers to wear masks during operations?
Readers asked us if it's legal for ICE officers to wear masks that cover their faces during raids. Here's what we learned.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/06/2025
I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city
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Socialism Conference @socialismconference.org · 17/06/2025
The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis Join @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social, and Angélica Cházaro as they discuss how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism. Co-sponsored by @detentionwatchnetwork.org
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2025
The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
2/ @micarosenberg.bsky.social, Perla Trevizo, Gabriel Sandoval, Ronna Risquez, Adrian Gonzalez and I have been reporting on what the government did to these 238 men, beginning with this story today: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement. Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When asked, I had to share my thoughts on @uwmadison.bsky.social granting an honorary doctorate to the architect of one of this country's most restrictive pieces of immigration legislation. Really a head-scratching move.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Always happy to jump on @wuwmradio.bsky.social to discuss Wisconsin's immigration history, especially when we get to focus on the tradition of sanctuary in our state. Take a listen! www.wuwm.com/government-p...
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Making Wisconsin: How sanctuary movements have succeeded and failed
WUWM's Making Wisconsin series dives into the history of sanctuary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and our country with Sergio González, Marquette University assistant professor of history and author.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You *have* to check out @elprofebarba.bsky.social's latest in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Blazing new paths in the study of sanctuary movements!
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org and local groups statement on ICE's arrest of Mayor Baraka www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
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Breaking – Immigrant Justice Advocates Respond: Mayor Baraka arrested by ICE outside of NJ detention center
Newark, New Jersey – Today Mayor Baraka was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside of Delaney Hall, after accompanying a congressional delegation with the intention to conduct a...
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Lloyd Barba @elprofebarba.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Our spring issue, Border Politics, is out today! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring...
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Spring 2025 - Dissent Magazine
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
So proud of this co-written piece, put together with my compa @elprofebarba.bsky.social, in the latest edition of @dissentmag.bsky.social. We review the history of the sanctuary movement and what it means for faith-based migrant justice movements today.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The @oah.org Annual Conference on American History is just a few days away and we can't wait to see all of our members and friends in Chicago. Check out the lineup of meet-ups, panels, roundtables, and seminars we've got planned for #OAH25!
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Check out this new important piece on the history of sanctuary cities by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social: time.com/7264323/sanc...
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Sanctuary Cities Are Not New
Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies.
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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thank you for writing this, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social. We need to know about this important history now more than ever.
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 18/03/2025
Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother and pillar in her community. I am deeply concerned about ICE's actions to detain her without any due process, like a deportation order. ICE should ensure Jeanette has legal counsel and immediately release her.
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Protesters gather outside ICE in Aurora after immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra reportedly taken into custody
Protesters gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora early Tuesday morning on reports that immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra was taken into custody.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is terrible. Jeanette is one of the most important leaders of the modern sanctuary movement and we need to understand her potential detention as an attack against the entire immigrant justice movement. Sign this petition in support of Jeannette! secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette
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Sign the Petition to Free Jeanette Vizguerra
Ms. Vizguerra has led her fight against deportation since 2009. ICE detained the community leader, mother and grandmother without warning on March 17, 2025. Her attorneys have raised concerns about s...
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The history of sanctuary is a history of organizing that has guidance for us now. Grateful to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social for their incredible work.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are in TIME today sharing our thoughts on the history of sanctuary cities, a social movement practice now forty years old. Thanks to @carlygoodman.bsky.social for all of your editing, couldn't have done it without you! time.com/7264323/sanc...
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Sanctuary Cities Are Not New
Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies.
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Dr. S. Deborah Kang @kangborderlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The next time you see me, I'll be handing you one of these: bookmarks for our edited volume on unauthorized European migrations to the United States (forthcoming May 2025) @dbattisti.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hey fans of the IEHS Online Book Series, did you make it to our Fall 2024 event with @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and Laura Madokoro? If not, catch up by checking out our YouTube page - here's Sergio González talking about his latest book, Strangers No Longer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk5k...
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Sergio González, Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
YouTube video by Immigration and Ethnic History Society
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨Check out this CFP! 🚨 Excited to be co-editing a special issue of The Public Historian with Delia Fernández-Jones and Chantel Rodriguez on Public History in the Latinx Midwest. Proposals due May 31, articles due early next year. Send us your pitch! online.ucpress.edu/tph
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Promoted with tenure. Thanks to everyone who helped get me through! Time to play one of Milwaukee's unofficial anthems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcaA...
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Milwaukee Bucks - Light It Up (2000 version)
YouTube video by Chris Pell
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A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Screaming once again that none of this is new. We’ve been using Gitmo to detain migrants for decades. It’s not DJT. It’s the USA and our long history of racist imperialism. I know we r overwhelmed, but pls find a lane & jump in. We have to protect each other, esp those most targeted.
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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
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