The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, December 6, 2024
Time: 12 p.m., EST
Where: Ziibiing Lab, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario
Rafael Martínez will present his book, Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, during a Lunch & Learn at Ziibiing Lab. Martínez’s work focuses on immigration, migration, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and American Southwest. This book, his first with the University of Arizona Press, analyzes the rise of Undocumented Youth Social Movements in the U.S. and immigrant youth’s contributions to the broader Immigrant Rights Movements. His work engages in Borderlands Studies to demonstrate how communities along the Mexico-U.S. border contribute to the social, political, and economic fabric of the U.S.
This event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be provided by Ziibiing Lab and the University of Toronto Indigenous Research Network. Please register here.
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.”
