The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 4-6 p.m., PST
Where: Loker Student Union, CSU Dominguez Hills, Ballroom A, 1000 E Victoria St, Carson, CA
Rafael Martínez will speak on “Bridging Borders: Stories from Undocumented Youth Movements,” at his alma mater, California State University, Dominguez Hills. Martínez is author of Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the Unites States and he 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.
The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History.
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.”
