The University of Arizona Press
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 2-3 p.m., MST
Where: Online via Zoom
Rafael Martínez will talk about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, as part of ASU Library’s online “Beyond the Bookshelf” series. Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU. His work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands. This virtual event is free and open to the public. Register to receive the Zoom link 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.”
