FLAGSTAFF — The NAU Immigration Awareness Series will present “An Evening with Margaret Regan” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2 in Liberal Arts 120, Building 18.
Regan will read from her new book, Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families under Fire (Beacon Press, 2015).
Detained and Deported focuses on Arizona, telling anguished stories of parents separated from their children while incarcerated in for-profit prisons, or deported to Nogales.
“The reading will surely open people’s eyes about the situation of undocumented immigrants in Arizona and elsewhere in the country,” Robert Neustadt, director of Latin American Studies at NAU, stated in a media release. “Regan’s first book, The Death of Josseline, is taught in many courses at NAU and elsewhere. It is a landmark text that expresses the reality of border. I have every expectation that Margaret Regan’s new book will be equally illuminating and important.”
Regan is also the author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (2010), a 2010 Southwest Book of the Year and Common Read for the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
Based in Tucson, Regan was a longtime writer for the Tucson Weekly. In 2013, she was named winner of the Al Filipov Peace and Justice Award for her writing on immigration.
This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by NAU-No More Deaths, Latin American Studies, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Cultural Studies, Honors College, and the Student Activities Council.
Contact Emily O’Neil at epo@nau.edu or call 928-523-0064 for more information.