Join the CLS Program for the third and final panel in the 2022-2023 Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Today lecture series. Our featured speakers, Perla Guerrero and Jennifer Jones, will discuss the “new” Latin American and …
Immigration
Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Community Gathering: Nindik Celeste Figueredo, Voces de La Frontera
The March 2nd Gathering features speaker Nindik Figueredo of Voces de la Frontera. At the Gatherings, representatives of a department or resource unit on campus will give short presentations and hold Q&A sessions for students. …
Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Community Gathering: Natalia Lucak, CILC Lead Project Attorney
The February 23 Gathering features Natalia Lucak, Lead Project Attorney for the Community Immigration Law Clinic. At the Gatherings, representatives of a department or resource unit on campus will give short presentations and hold Q&A sessions …
CLS Today: Sustainability and Placemaking in Latinx Communities
Join the CLS Program for the first panel in the 2022-2023 Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Today lecture series. Our featured speakers, Delia Fernandez-Jones, J. Gibran Villalobos, and Claire Fox will discuss their contributions to the …
Edna Ledesma Receives PARCI Grant to Study Farmers Markets
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, …
Almita Miranda Receives PARCI Grant to Study Mixed-Status Families
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 …
Marla Ramírez Receives PACI Grant for Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative
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.
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 …