* This event is in-person only *
Join the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies for the 5th annual Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture on September 24, 2025. This year’s lecture will be presented by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca, focusing on their recent publication Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings (HarperCollins 2023).
Somewhere We Are Human is a unique collection of groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by forty-one migrants, refugees, and Dreamers, including award-winning writers, artists, and activists, that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. This anthology of essays, poetry, and art seeks to shift the immigration debate—now shaped by rancorous stereotypes and xenophobia—towards one rooted in humanity and justice. Through their storytelling and art, the contributors to this thought-provoking book remind us that they are human still. Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced portraits of their existence before and after migration, the factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective hunger for a future not defined by borders (shared courtesy of HarperCollins).
The event will be followed by a book sale and signing.
For accessibility accommodations, please contact Tamara Hageman (hageman@umn.edu).