Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of two award-winning books The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration and Puerto Rican families and Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream and co-editor of two anthologies, Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America (Frank A. Guridy and Adrian Burgos Jr., co-editors) and Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades, co-edited with Alex Chávez. Her new book Sanctuary People: Faith-Based organizing in Latina/o Communities explores sanctuary movements and practices with and among Latinas/os in Ohio from 2016-2020.
Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.