CLS Program faculty member Lola Loustaunau published a paper on wildcat strikes in 2020 by Latina apple pickers in Washington state, and she presented the results from the Wisconsin Farmworker Coalition’s community-driven survey project on April 1st. The Washington study examined the ways that the COVID-19 crisis moved the apple workers to strike after a …
CLS affiliate faculty member Edna Ledesma (Planning & Landscape Architecture) has recieved a Pandemic Affected Research grant to continue a longitudinal study of four Latino Vendor Markets (LVM), classified as flea markets or swap meets, in two predominantly Latino states, California and Texas. The study, which began in 2015, analyzed LVM through the lens of …
Almita Miranda, Assistant Professor of Geography and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, received funding from the Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative (PARCI) to conduct follow-up ethnographic research with return migrants and transnational family networks in rural communities in central Mexico. She will be conducting semi-structured interviews, participant-observation, and archival research in Zacatecas, Mexico to examine the effects …
CLS Director Armando Ibarra is among the authors of a recent report from the UW-Madison School for Workers on workplace safety in Wisconsin during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, COVID-19 has devastated the lives of essential workers, their families and their communities. While many in the U.S. can work from home during …
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 with the Latino Health Council, Gilberto works at Madison’s testing sites, registering patients, sharing results, and administering tests. Having studied …
Because of COVID-19-related disruptions to campus operations and student life, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program has extended the deadline for the new “Somos” development award competitions for students and faculty. The Deadline for Spring 2020 awards is April 10th. Application procedures have not changed. The “Somos” awards are made possible by the generous support …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies faculty reaffirms the Program’s commitment to social and racial justice on campus and in the broader community. In the wake of recent bias incidents around the University of Wisconsin campus, we call for full and deep solidarity with students, colleagues, and neighbors of Asian descent. As scholars of race and ethnicity …