Tomorrow 4-5pm CT will be the final of the presentations in the Migration Webinar Series organized by the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), UW-Madison and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), UW-Milwaukee.

Tomorrow’s panel titled, Wisconsin/Milwaukee Ties will feature a recent LACUSL alumna, Margarita García Rojas as well as local activist, Jesus Salas and CLACS Fellow, Rachel Bloom-Pojar!

Wisconsin/Milwaukee Ties

This webinar will focus on individual, day-to-day lives and work. By closing the series in this way, we are bringing the many migration issues discussed throughout the fall to reflect more fully on people’s stories and lived experiences.

Margarita García Rojas (LACUSL alumna, Graduate student, Department of History, University of Illinois), “Mexican migration to the Midwest: When we’re together, we’re home”

My presentation will focus on my family’s migration story from Mexico City to Beloit, Wisconsin in 2001. I will include details from the journey, the resources my family used, employment, having to move away from my family in rural Wisconsin to move to MKE where my mom located and utilized new resources, living in a transnational and mixed status family after members of our family self-deported, and how my family’s stories can relate to others (pulling from my past interviews with immigrant students in MKE)

Read more and register to attend here.