Apr 06, 2026 Campus Talk and Book Signing with Dr. Marla A. Ramirez

Dr. Marla A. Ramírez, Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be providing a talk about her new book, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 22 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. at El Dorado Hall.

The book is a moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history--from 1921 to 1944 -- when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans― mostly women and children who were US citizens ― were forced to relocate across the southern border through what officials called "repatriation," when it was, in fact, banishment.

Co-sponsored by the Chicana/o Studies Department, the Center for Community Engagement, and IRA.