The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m., PDT
Where: Namaste Lounge, UC Santa Cruz, College Nine Rd., Santa Cruz, CA
Rafael A. Martínez will read and speak about his book, Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, in the Namaste Lounge at UC Santa Cruz. Joining Martínez in conversation is Yosimar Reyes; the event is presented by CRES70U and I.D.E.A.S. from UC Santa Cruz. 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 event is free and open to the public. The first 25 students will receive a free book.
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.”
