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Academic Books
- Collingwood, Loren and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Coutin, Susan Bibler, The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993)
- Crittenden, Ann, A Story of American Conscience and the Law in Collision (New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)
- Cunningham, Hilary, God and Cesar at the Rio Grande: Sanctuary and the Politics of Religion (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
- Delgado, Melvin, Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018)
- García, Maria Cristina, Seeking Refuge: A Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006)
- García, Mario T., Father Luis Olivares, a Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
- Robin, Lorentzen, Women in the Sanctuary Movement (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1991)
- Rabben, Linda, Give Refuge to the Stranger: The Past, Present, and Future of Sanctuary (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2011)
- Rabben, Linda, Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2016)
- Shoemaker, Karl, Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2011)
- Yukich, Grace, One Family Under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Academic Journal Articles and Chapters
- Barba, Lloyd, and Tatyana Castillo-Ramos, “Sacred Resistance: The Sanctuary Movement from Reagan to Trump” 16 Perspectivas (2019)
- Beck, Chad Thomas, “Sanctuary for Immigrants and Refugees in Our Legal and Ethical Wilderness” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 72:2 (2018)
- Campbell, Kristina M., “Operation Sojourner: The Government Infiltration of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and its Legacy on the Modern Central American Refugee Crisis” University of St. Louis Law Journal 13:3 (2017)
- Cuison-Villazor, Rose, and Pratheepan Gulasekaram, “Sanctuary Networks” Minnesota Law Review 103:3 (2019)
- González, Sergio, “The Sanctuary Movement” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (2020)
- Kagan, Michael, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Sanctuary Cities” Scholarly Works (2018)
- Martínez, Daniel E., Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt, and Guillermo Cantor, “Providing Sanctuary or Fostering Crime? A Review of the Research on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ and Crime” Sociology Compass 12:1 (January 2018)
- Ruiz Martinez, Carlos, “The Question of Sanctuary: The Adorers of the Blood of Christ and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement, 1983-1996” U.S. Catholic Historian 38:4 (2020)
- Sostaita, Barbara “Escape Bound: Juana Luz Tobar Ortega’s Fugitive Poetics,” Southern Cultures 26:4 (2020)
Trade Press Books
- Bau, Ignatius, This Ground is Holy: Church Sanctuary and Central American Refugees (Mahwah, NY: Paulist Press, 1985)
- Davidson, Miriam, Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988)
- Golden, Renny, and Michael McConnell, Sanctuary: The New Underground Railroad (Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 1986)
- Tomsho, Robert, The American Sanctuary Movement (Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1987)
Online Media Articles: Sanctuary Campuses
News Articles: Sanctuary Cities
New Articles: Sanctuary Practices
Reports on Sanctuary
Sermons and Reflections
