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Illegalized – Undocumented youth movements on Peace & Justice, Wednesday, Nov 13 at 9am

Written by on Sunday, November 10, 2024

This Wednesday Nov. 13 on Peace & Justice at 9am, Tom will talk to Rafael Martinez, author of Illegalized – Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States.

Martinez 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.”