The University of Arizona Press
Date: Monday, October 28, 2024
Time: 4:30 p.m., MST
Where: Student Union Ballroom C, University of New Mexico, 1128 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM
Rafael Martínez will speak about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Jasmine Hernandez, PhD student in Evolutionary Anthropology will also make a presentation. A reception will follow in the El Centro Courtyard. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by UNM Chicano/a Studies, UNM El Centrol de la Raza, and University Libraries.
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.”
