Our guest on today’s podcast, Rafael Martinez, is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University.  There he focuses on immigration, migration, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the American Southwest.  Through that work he demonstrates how communities along the US-Mexico border contribute to the social, political, and economic fabric of the US.  He calls himself am ‘undocu-scholar’, a DREAMer, as part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which offered certain protections to young people like himself.  He discusses the many issues surrounding immigration and particularly the rise of undocumented youth social movements in 21st century America.  He documents their efforts in his book, “Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States.”