ICE arrests in Washington tell stories of suffering that goes unseen Sep. 28, 2021 at 2:50 pm Updated Sep. 28, 2021 at 3:59 pm A child traveling from El Salvador hoping to reach relatives living in the U.S. answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he was smuggled across the… (AP Photo / Dario

Recently José Antonio Lucero, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Comparative History of Ideas Associate Professor and Department of American Indian Studies Adjunct Associate Professor, shared his thoughts with us on the meaning of Hispanic Heritage Month: “Hispanic Heritage Month” does seem to need some re-thinking. While I understand and endorse

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia and Hostile Terrain 94 are on view at the Henry Art Gallery as part of Art at the Borders of the Political, a multi- faceted project sponsored by the University of Washington’s Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. The project centers the question of how

Separated at the U.S.-Canada border: For a father and son, 90 miles is a distance too far SEATTLE — In 2019, federal agents took Carlos Rivera away in handcuffs when he strayed across the U.S.-Canada border, even though he says they could see his 7-year-old son waiting for him with a friend on the Canadian side.

In “Northwest detention center in Tacoma slated to close under bill passed by Legislature” Angelina Godoy gives comments on documented systemic abuse as well as the impact of COVID-19 on the Northwest detention center.

Monica Rojas-Stewart, Ph.D.; Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Dance Submitted by Lisa Kwak on February 25, 2021 – 5:12pm To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight a different Black dance artist in the

In 2001, Cowlitz County Commissioners contracted with the US Department of Justice, now US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to house youth detained subject to immigration proceedings. Read more…

New York, NY – 14 December 2020 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, for Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders. Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, published by the University