Tag: U.S./Mexico Border

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 Examiner on the growing media panic about the situation at the southern border.  Prof. Barbato and colleagues who practice immigration …

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 these top-notch scholars. Joining the CLS Program with a joint appointment in Geography is Assistant Professor Almita Miranda.  Dr. Miranda …

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 ...