My name is Karen Larke and I am a current Master’s in Migration Studies candidate for 2019. Part of our cohort recently returned from an exchange semester in Mexico City at La Universidad Iberoamericana. My research focuses on educational opportunities of newcomer, mainly immigrant and refugee, youth and the methods employed in assisting newcomer youth in education. We arrived at the meeting spot in front of the Sevilla metro station on a still dark and sleepy morning in La […]

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Three of our Master in Migration Studies students, Corie Schwabenland Garcia, Melanie Shelton, and Valeria Vera, have been featured as guest bloggers on ImmigrationProf Blog! This blog is edited by USF Law School and Master in Migration Studies Professor Bill Hing. Corie Schwabenland Garcia’s post takes a look at Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Check out her piece “It’s Time We Talk About TPS”. Melanie Shelton writes a book review focusing on the work of author René Colato Laínez, a U.S.-based, Salvadoran […]

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We are proud to present our first cohort of graduates along with descriptions of their research and applied projects.  We are honored to be part of their visions and calls for improved human and immigrant rights.   Andrea Portillo Dreams sin Fronteras: Exploring the Lives and Experiences of Five Returned Migrants in Mexico Due to an unprecedented number of deportations in the last decade, coupled with a recent fall in net migration from Mexico, return migration from the United States […]

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I am currently studying abroad in Mexico City under the Masters in Migration Studies program at Universidad Iberoamericana. My research focuses on how drug and crime organizations have affected migration, specifically exploring how this phenomenon impacts women in their migratory journey. Over the course of this spring semester, I have been volunteering at CAFEMIN once a week, working closely with adolescent migrants and offering them English classes.  I first reached out to Estela L. (interviewed below) because I was looking […]

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