The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, October 18, 2024
Time: 6-8 p.m., MST
Where: ASU Chandler Innovation Center, 249 E. Chicago St., Chandler, AZ
Rafael Martínez will launch his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, on Friday, October 18, at Arizona State University Chandler Innovation Center. He will read from his work, and books will be available for purchase and signing; the event is free and open to the public.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
