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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Flavio Bravo ’19 writes about his time in Mexico as a Migration & Human Rights Intern during Summer 2018.  After initially studying abroad with seven other members of my cohort at la Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, I was able to continue my time in Mexico through USF’s Arrupe Fellowship Fund, which gave me the financial support to develop my research as a Migration & Human Rights Intern at the Instituto de Derechos Humanos Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. (IDHIE) in Cholula, […]

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  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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