Undocumented Immigrants Should Not be Excluded from COVID-19 Relief The newly passed CARES Act aims to boost the economy and soften the financial hardships experienced by people and communities impacted by the devastating global coronavirus pandemic. While the act aims to support families, local businesses and more, the 2 trillion-dollar stimulus package fails to support some of the most vulnerable communities impacted by COVID-19–undocumented immigrants. While this is not the first time that this community has been left out of […]

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Last fall, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), a grassroots organization working to empower and organize the community towards justice and self-determination for all, hosted a public charge information session in the Tenderloin to raise awareness about the new rule, how it will affect immigrants and their families, and the resources available in and around the Bay area that range from legal services, rapid response, and connection to social services. What exactly is public charge? This law is about […]

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Flavio Bravo, a 2019 graduate of the Masters in Migration Studies program at the University of San Francisco, has turned his passion for immigrant rights into fighting for justice on Capitol Hill. Bravo grew up in the border state of Arizona, where the loudest political voices were those that held anti-immigrant sentiments and echoed anti-Mexican bigotry. Realizing that conversations about immigration were dinner-table discussions among families across America, not just in the border towns, he decided to continue pursuing these […]

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Graduate School is hard, but here are some helpful tips we have collected from our students to help you through your journey.  Classes are discussion based. This means that during class, not only will you be learning from your professor, but you also will be learning from your peers! Many of you have worked in the field or have lived what you are learning. This is valuable knowledge and should be shared with others.   Feedback takes time. When submitting […]

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My name is Maraika Kuipers-Sharsher, I am a graduate student in the USF Master in Migration Studies Program with the hopes of becoming a refugee lawyer. Through this program, I have been exposed to many amazing learning opportunities and wanted to share one on our MIMS blog. I attended a teach-in on Colonial Geographies *Border Crossing: Kashmir, Mexico, and Palestine, hosted by AMED (Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas) Studies at SFSU. AMED focuses on decolonizing research surrounding Arabs and […]

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My name is Erika Landa Sarmiento. I am a DACAmented student born in Puebla, Mexico, and was brought to the United States at age two. Growing up, I set a goal for myself to be the first one in my family to graduate from a university. Last May, that dream became a reality when I graduated from California State University, Channel Islands, with a Bachelor of Arts in Chicana/o Studies. I applied to graduate programs, because I was encouraged to […]

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MIMS student, Nik Evasco ’19, was featured in the USF College of Art’s and Science’s news! Nik was interviewed about the research they’ve done in the program and what the plans are for the future. Learn more through the article here.

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Joe Kramer ’20 shares his experiences from the MIMS field trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.   A lot can happen in three days. To describe that weekend as anything less than a journey would be an understatement. This journey was one of contradictions and juxtapositions that would make any American’s head spin. From October 12, 2018 through October 14, 2018 the 2020 cohort of Migration Studies students from the University of San Francisco spent the weekend in […]

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Originally from the Los Angeles Area, Karina Castro is a MIMS 2018 graduate who currently works as a Program Assistant at KIND Inc., Kids in Need of Defense. Karina’s research focused on a thesis on the response of direct service providers to Haitian Refugees at the Tijuana border. She was able to go to Rome with other MIMS students with USF’s Master in Non-Profit Administration program. I had never been to Rome before nor did I ever imagine I would have the […]

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