Growing up Undocumented

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imperial US interventions in Latin America drives immigration to the north. Martinez writes about her experiences in an essay entitled “How Socialism Brought Me Dignity as an Undocumented Person,” published online in Democratic Left on February 5, 2025.

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