The University of Arizona Press
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Time: 12 p.m., PDT
Where: 3201 Hart Hall, 301 Shields Ave., UC Davis, Davis, CA, register here
Rafael Martínez will lead a workshop, “UndocScholarship and Movement Building,” that delves into the methodological approach of (un)documenting immigrant and undocumented social movements, activism, and strategies of resistance. The workshop is based on this new book, Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the Unites States. Martínez is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
This in-person event is free and open to the public, and registration is required. Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the UC Davis Undocumented Student Resource Center, UC Davis Chicana/o Studies, and UC Davis Asian American Studies.
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.”
