University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Faculty op-eds

CLS Director Armando Ibarra on the “Latino” Vote

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the mainstream press has struggled to understand the voting behavior of U.S. communities of Latin American descent.  In a recent op-ed for The Progressive, CLS Director Armando Ibarra argues that class differences, occupational niches, and different Cold War histories are central to understanding Latinx voters’.  Ibarra argues that …

CLS Affiliate Prof. Barbato Calls for an End to Immigration Detention

Erin Barbato, a CLS affiliate faculty member in the UW School of Law and the director of the University’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, has published a forceful editorial in the Capital Times calling for an end to immigration detention in the United States.  She notes that recent reports of forced sterilizations in immigration detention facilities have …