Lloyd Barba
@elprofebarba.bsky.social
Relig Prof at Amherst College | current research areas: immigration, Pentecostalism, Latino religion, sanctuary movt., & Cesar Chavez | Go Blue!
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Sergio González@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 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!
🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends, @smgonzalezwi.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 NYU Press.
So much to process rn. Arellano has some excellent thoughts on what’s next.
Col. Gustavo Arellano@gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 5mo agoMY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What's next?
Quick trip to Notre Dame Law on this jam packed Tuesday. Honored to have served on a panel addressing sanctuary & asylum and happy to have spoken with future and current attorneys working the frontlines on immigration as part of the Global Human Rights Clinic. Thnx! Victoria Foley for facilitating.
Friends, I couldn’t be happier to share that last week I earned tenure at Amherst College. I’m indebted to my family, friends, and mentors along the way. Thanks for your encouragement, advice, and, hospitality. Getting ahead of the printer in July 2026 :)
Beyond troubling. Pastor Woolf’s showing that faith calls for resistance. See his attached essay from this week.
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 9mo agoOh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social
Enjoyed the conversation!
PRRI@prri.org · 11mo agoNew: 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...
Excellent work here by USC Phd student Christian Pattavina!
Christian Pattavina@pattavina.bsky.social · last yr.Read what I wrote about an upcoming Supreme Court case on an egregious violation of religious freedom, and how Christian nationalists want to hijack it to advance their insidious agenda: religiondispatches.org/landor-in-ba...
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New piece by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social: "The Future of Sanctuary" www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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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Truly enjoyed working on this w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and thnx to the superb team at @dissentmag.bsky.social
Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · last yr.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-...
📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...
My latest in JAAR. This time on the “usable sacred histories” of the Sanctuary Movement. Shoutout to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and the American Religion workshops at Stanford and Princeton led by @kginlum.bsky.social and Nicole Myers Turner, respectively. academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...
“An Historic and Hallowed Principle in Religious Life:” The Usable Sacred Histories of the 1980s Sanctuary Movement
ABSTRACT. This article draws on numerous primary sources to tease out the “usable sacred histories” that Sanctuary Movement congregations of the 1980s invo
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Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !
Sergio González@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · last yr.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.
Grateful for this opportunity to finish my next book “A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the US Sanctuary Movement” 🙏
American Council of Learned Societies@acls1919.bsky.social · last yr.We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq
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.
Sergio González@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · last yr.@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...
@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...
Sanctuary Cities Are Not New
Since the 1980s, communities have challenged deportations by crafting sanctuary city policies.
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Happy to share my new “Spotlight Analysis” for @prripoll.bsky.social. Migrant crime is the Trump administration’s key propaganda piece, so, an aggressive media campaign is in place to swell this already high-tide of xenophobia. www.prri.org/spotlight/wh...
Why the Second Trump Administration Is Making Americans’ Perception of Migrant Crime Central to its Communications | PRRI
Lloyd Barba, Ph.D., is a 2024-2025 PRRI Public Fellow who focuses on immigration and migration. He is also an assistant professor of religion and Latinx/Latin American studies at Amherst College in Ma...
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Interested in learning about local immigration sanctuary policies in the U.S.? Check out "Mapping U.S. Sanctuary Policies." storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cdc7...
Mapping U.S. Sanctuary Policies
Welcome to our story map about local immigration sanctuary policies passed from 2001-2014 in the United States. We are glad you are here!Note: Due to the interactive features and data intensity of thi...
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A bevy of Beecher books from my personal collection for class today as we wrapped up Stowe’s religious biography. I lowkey wonder what Henry (Amherst class of 1834) would have to say about all this 🤔
Happy to see this getting more coverage in Spanish media and had a great conversation with Patricia Caro at El País…we chatted about a wide range of topics but lots of big issues and major players sort of conversation.
More big news on all things sanctuary and freedom of religion…also churches see attendance drop for fear of deportations. apnews.com/article/immi...
Trump won't block immigration arrests in houses of worship. Now these 27 religious groups are suing
More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans have filed a federal court lawsuit challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to m...
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New: PRRI Public Fellows @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social consider President Trump’s efforts to dismantle sanctuary cities in order to meet his ultimate goal of mass deportations arcmag.org/let-us-now-p...
Let Us Now Praise Sanctuary Cities | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
During a campaign rally in mid-October in Coachella, Cal., Donald Trump asked a throng of supporters if they know what a "sanctuary city" is. “That’s a place where you keep criminals, right? Who the h...
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I shared some insight w/APNews for its story today on immigration enforcement in churches. I noted how Latino evangelicals (unlike mainline churches) lack a unified teaching on immigration and that hinders how they might engage in sacred resistance. apnews.com/article/lati...
Latino evangelical churches gear up to face possible immigration enforcement in churches
A number of Latino evangelical churches in Florida and in the southeast United States are gearing up to protect their sacred spaces.
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"These shifts, and how immigrant communities and their allies respond to them, are neither inevitable nor irreversible."
Lloyd Barba@elprofebarba.bsky.social · last yr.Sanctuary cities throw a wrench in Trump’s mass deportation plan. Here Sergio & I explain why they’re more important now than ever. Please share w/comm leaders even if they already support sanctuary. Misinfo has maligned this timely, effective, & legal tactic. arcmag.org/let-us-now-p...
