Lecture: “Documenting the Undocumented: Latinx Narrative and ‘Illegal’ Immigration”

Marta Caminero-Santangelo, professor of English at the University of Kansas, is an academic scholar and activist who works with immigrant rights organizations and gives community presentations on U.S. Latino/a/x literature and culture and immigrant rights. She is the author of the book Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper (University of Florida Press, 2016) and numerous articles on literature and social justice for undocumented youth.

This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Community Health Sciences, the UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association, the Central American Studies Working Group at UCLA, and the CSRC.

This event is free and open to the public.