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  2. Year: 2020
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Month: December 2020

Michael Light Shows Crime Rates Among Undocumented Immigrants are Low

Posted on December 28, 2020

Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records by Sociology/CLS Prof. Michael Light. Previous studies, including others …

Posted in NewsTagged Citizenship, CLS Faculty, Crime, Faculty Publications, Michael Light, Migration, Undocumented Immigrants

Benjamin Márquez to Publish the First Book on MALDEF

Posted on December 17, 2020

Can committed professional activists, paid by granting agencies to work through the legal system, change the world? That’s the question former CLS director Benjamin Márquez asks in The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the …

Posted in NewsTagged Benjamin Marquez, Books, CLS Faculty, Faculty Publications, MALDEF, Politics

CLS Alum Gilberto Osuna-León Helps Madison Respond to COVID-19

Posted on December 2, 2020

A recent news report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Madison’s Latinx community highlights the work of CLS Alum and Jesus Salas Scholarship recipient Gilberto Osuna León (’20).  As a bilingual COVID-19 specialist …

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, COVID-19, Gilberto Osuna Leon, Latino Health Council, Patricia Tellez-Giron, Public Health

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