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.
Perez's timely and thought-provoking Sanctuary People is a beacon of hope. The book offers readers a profound understanding of the power of faith communities to shape a brighter, more inclusive future and of Latinx communities' activist strategies to enact expansive forms of solidarity. It also provides a model for conducting socially engaged and compassionate ethnography in the 21st century. * Arlene Dávila, New York University *