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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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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
***Call for Papers for @lawcha.bsky.social Conference*** The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) 2027 Conference: “Working Across Divisions” June 24-26, 2027 UMass Boston Deadline for Proposals: November 1st lawcha.org/biannual-con...
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Constitution & Bylaws | LAWCHA
The full constitution and bylaws of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Read more about the history of sanctuary activism and opposition to faith-based immigrant justice movements in @elprofebarba.bsky.social and my forthcoming book, Sanctuary in America! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Echoes of the 1980s, when opponents of sanctuary for Central Americans argued that the movement was either the vanguard for communist infiltration, a front for unleashing a brown tide of migrants, or worst of all, a combination of the two.
Image of West Watch newsletter opposing the sanctuary movement, April/May 1985
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cliodialogues.bsky.social @cliodialogues.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Coming soon to The Clio Dialogues: Historians Sergio M. González and Lloyd D. Barba join me to discuss their new book, 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴—𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘐𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. Stay tuned! 🎧 @elprofebarba.bsky.social @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, make sure to order using the OUP promo code. We’re so excited to share the captivating stories of the sanctuary movement with you all!
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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 · 17/09/2026
Thanks Nathan!
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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
Stay tuned for more information about endorsements and promo codes, all coming soon! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Ending with the dramatic community-led showdown against ICE in Minneapolis, SANCTUARY IN AMERICA offers historical perspectives for understanding the debates over immigration and sanctuary that continue to shape our world today.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
SANCTUARY IN AMERICA explores how faith communities, immigrants, and everyday people built one of the most enduring movements for justice in modern American history.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Drawing on archival research from across the country and written for a general audience, SANCTUARY IN AMERICA is a gripping, fast-paced book tells the moving history of the sanctuary movement, from its origins in the 1980s to the present.
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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
The intro and conclusion offer a rich historiography and chart new directions for future research. We hope you’ll read and share the work and teach it in your classrooms! nyupress.org/978147983371...
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Sacred Refuge
Traces America's sanctuary movement across five decadesSanctuary has become one of the most powerful social and religious movements to push back against stat...
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The volume is the fruit of that meeting, with chapters examining sanctuary rooted in place (e.g., Oberlin and Philadelphia), motivated by Jewish and Christian theological traditions, attacked in right-wing backlash, and directly tied to the New Sanctuary Movement that was born 20 years ago.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This edited volume spotlights fresh stories from the archives across 11 chapters spanning over half a century of sanctuary organizing. In 2023, we convened a dozen historians for a sanctuary symposium to understand the legacies of sanctuary.
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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 exhibit opens today, June 16, and will be up until October 10. We explore how foreign and domestic migrant workers transformed Door County into America's Cherryland during World War II and in the postwar years. www.ephraim.org/exhibits
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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
And for those who want to learn more about the Sanctuary Movement, check out the limited-series podcast @elprofebarba.bsky.social and I released in 2024 - Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State
History Podcast · Series · A limited podcast series about the politics of immigration, faith as radical hospitality, and the borders between church and state. In the spring of 1982, six faith communi...
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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 · 03/10/2025
What a phenomenal lecture - thanks for bringing this amazing work to Marquette! Really looking forward to reading the new book soon.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
For more on the history of faith-based religious activism and what real accompaniment looks like, check out my chapter on sanctuary in Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945. nyupress.org/978147980452...
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Faith and Power
Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not cen...
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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 “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @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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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Appreciate it, @robwisc.bsky.social!
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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
Thanks for sharing, Tim!
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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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