“What you have here is almost an open secret that everybody knows,” he said, “including industry owners, that they have large percentages of undocumented workers.”
Armando Ibarra
Who Won the Latinx Vote in 2024? It’s More Complicated Than That.
“Latinx people are not a monolithic voting bloc. We need to stop analyzing them as such,” says Professor Armando Ibarra in his Progressive Magazine op-ed. “Latino voters are not a homogenous group; a complex interplay …
Immigrants provide important economic contributions in Wisconsin, report says
In Wisconsin, the report found that immigrants paid $3 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, and held $3.3 billion in spending power. “There’s an undercount in the Latinx population, and, in particular, …
Latino Voters Balance Stereotypes, Their Pocketbooks and Immigrants’ Vital Role
Latino immigrants provide crucial labor but face a backlash in the U.S. Heartland; those who are citizens may decide the election in Wisconsin. “No matter what happens at the border, a transformation of sorts takes …
The Latino Question
Host, Emily Auerbach, speaks with Professor Armando Ibarra on WPR. Ibarra, a child migrant worker who became a professor in UW’s School for Workers places his Mexican family’s journey in a broader political and economic …
Latinos Organizing for Understanding and Development, PBS Wisconsin to host a special screening of “Profe”
The screening for “Profe” will be on Monday, Sept. 16 at Studio A in Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., from 6:30-8:30 p.m. It is free to attend. The screening will also award three educators — …
The Myth of the Immigrant Threat with Armando Ibarra
Armando Ibarra joins Allen Ruff on A Public Affair to talk about the prevalence of anti-immigrant rhetoric in the GOP platform. Ibarra discusses what makes anti-immigrant narratives so appealing and how politicians use the language …
Professor Ibarra awarded a 2024 Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant
Eight projects and 12 seed grants from the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment show a range of how UW–Madison faculty, staff and students can collaborate with community members to co-create and share knowledge and solutions that …
New immigration policy creates pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
In the past decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants entering Wisconsin which has greatly increased the state’s Latino population — from 93,000 to 447,290, according to a Dairy Workers Study conducted by the School for Workers…
Three takeaways from UW-Madison panel on challenges to academic freedom
Humanities NOW hosted a panel of experts to discuss the role of public universities and academic freedom amid a controversial “DEI deal.” “There were many faculty that I spoke to that were outraged, and continue …