Academic Books
Academic Journal Articles and Chapters
Trade Press Books
News Articles: Sanctuary Campuses
News Articles: Sanctuary Cities
New Articles: Sanctuary Practices
Reports on Sanctuary
Sermons and Reflections
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
Natanson, Hannnah, “Faust Says Harvard Will Not Be a ‘Sanctuary Campus’” The Harvard Crimson (12/7/2016)
Lloyd, Jens, “I Never Intended It To Become a Symbol of Resistance’: An Interview with Xavier Maciel about the Sanctuary Campus Movement” Reflections (2019)
News Articles: Sanctuary Cities
Savage, David G., “California’s ‘sanctuary’ rules stay in place after Supreme Court rejects Trump’s challenge” LA Times (06/15/2020)
New Articles: Sanctuary Practices
McDaniel, Judith, “The Sanctuary Movement, Then and Now” Religion and Politics (02/21/2017)
Ruiz-Martinez, Carlos “ Two Years Too Long: Pilgrims Honor Alex García’s Sanctuary Journey With 14,000 Steps of Joyful Resistance” Latino Rebels (September 26, 2019)
Sostaita, Barbara, “Listening for Footsteps Offering Brief Safety in a Hostile Place” BitchMedia (Winter 2020)
Reports on Sanctuary
Orozco, Myrna, Noel Anderson, et. al., “Sanctuary in the Age of Trump: The Rise of the Movement a Year into the Trump Administration” (January 2018)
Sermons and Reflections
Vicki Kemper, “Blessed Are the Powerless” (First Church of Amherst; September 8, 2019)