The University of Arizona Press
Date: Monday, September 22, 2025
Time: 5:45 p.m., CST
Where: Olin 149 and Weitz Common Area, Carleton College, 320 Third Street East, Northfield, MN
Rafael Martínez will speak about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States at Carleton College. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of his book, and Martínez will be available to sign books. The free and open to the public event includes a reception. The event is sponsored in collaboration with the Carleton College Spanish department and Humanities Center.
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.”
