Congratulations to CLS faculty member Marla Andrea Ramírez Tahuado, who has secured funding from OVCRGE’s Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative for oral history research on undocumented youth organizing in the United States.
Immigration
No Border Crisis: CLS Affiliate Erin Barbato in the “Examiner”
Is a “surge” of migrant youth causing a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border? Not if you ask CLS affiliate faculty member Erin Barbato. Her comment appeared in a recent article by Ruth Conniff in the Wisconsin …
LACIS Migration Seminar Series – “Immigration from Latin America to the Midwest”
Join Drs. Almita Miranda, Marla Ramírez, and José Villagrán, along with Alfredo Carlos of CSU Long Beach for a panel on migration from Latin America to the Midwest, moderated by CLS Director Armando Ibarra. Immigration …
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 …
CLS Faculty and Staff React to the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision
The faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program welcome the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. We also commend Chancellor Blank for her statement on the case. The news comes at …
CLS Faculty Statement of support for Asian and Asian American Communities
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, …
Alex Chávez, “Verses and Flows: Migrant Lives and the Sounds of Crossing”
The Department of Anthropology, the Center for Latin American Caribbean & Iberian Studies, the Center for Visual Cultures and the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies program present Alex Chávez, Nancy O’Neill Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University …
From Awareness to Action: Immigration’s Impacts on Children from Madison to the Northern Triangle of Central America
From Awareness to Action: Immigration’s Impacts on Children from Madison to the Northern Triangle of Central America Thursday, November 14th from 5-7PM at the Pyle Center-Alumni Lounge. Free and open to the public & the …
CLS Welcomes New Faculty
As a new semester begins, The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to welcome our newest faculty colleagues to campus. If you’re interested in migration, borders, and citizenship, you’ll want to get to know …
Statement on Family Separation at the United States/Mexico Border by the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chican@/Latin@ Studies Program (July 2018)
As scholars of Chicanx and Latinx Studies and other academic fields we unequivocally denounce the practice of separating families by the United States Immigration Customs Enforcement …