IMMIGRANT DETENTION AND ITS AFTERMATH

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
| Location of Session: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 2:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

It’s impossible to understand the history of immigration in the United States without understanding how the government treats those who are most vulnerable when they arrive. Historian Ana Raquel Minian tells the devastating story of how a nation of immigrants came to create the largest immigration detention system in the world In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ana Raquel Minian

Ana Raquel Minian

Ana Raquel Minian is a professor of history at Stanford University and the author of the award-winning book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. A recipient of the prestigious Andrew Carnegie fellowship, their writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs, among other outlets. Originally from Mexico City, they now live with their partner in the Bay Area. Their new book is In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.

Moderator

Rita Urquijo-Ruiz

Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, translator, writer, activist, and performer from Sonora, Mexico and southern California. She is a professor and chairs the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University. Her academic interests are Mexican, Chicana/o/x, and Latina/o/x literatures, cultures, film, gender, sexuality, theater, and performance studies as well as migration/immigration. Her short memoir piece “First Visit,” about being undocumented as an undergrad student, is in the anthology: Somewhere We are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings co-edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca.