Ministries: Immersion / Service-Learning, Migration and Refugees
Results
Arrupe Lecture Series in Saint Peter’s Preparatory School (Jersey City, NJ)
A week-long summit exploring immigration through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching that will feature, among others, Fr. Sean Carroll, S.J., of the Kino Border Initiative.
Border Awareness Experience, Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
The objective of the Border Awareness Experience (BAE) is to facilitate face to face meetings and encounters between BAE participants and people in the border community in order to raise consciousness and help break down barriers and promote social justice. We feel that the US/Mexico border is a unique place where we can better understand our role in an increasingly globalized world.
Community Service & Social Justice Program: Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas (Dallas, TX)
A three day service trip to Peru, where students will examine global poverty, immigration, climate change, fair trade and many more.
Jesuit Dallas will host the second annual Jesuit Human Rights Education Day with a focus on Immigration. The day is sponsored by the Community Service and Social Justice Program and the Theology Department and is designed for upperclassmen to experience interactive presentations that build from their current classroom curriculum.
Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic (San Francisco , CA)
The innovative Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic focuses on critical human rights issues, including migrants' rights, application of the death penalty to juveniles, and trafficking of women. Students also work on briefs detailing international law standards to U.S. courts and represent individual clients before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Immigration and Asylum Externship Program (Newton Centre , MA)
The Immigration and Asylum Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to develop their immigration lawyering skills and exposes them to the realities of immigration practice. Participants work either off campus at a firm or non-profit, or on campus with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.
Immigration Law Clinic, Seattle University Law School (Seattle, WA)
Students enrolled in the Immigration Clinic will provide legal representation to clients in immigration proceedings. Students will get involved at various stages of these proceedings, which may include proceedings before Immigration Officers, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals or Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Immigration Law Group (Newton, MA)
This student organization is appointed by the elected student government of the law school. They focus on researching immigration law.
Immokalee Migrant Worker Justice, Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
This trip will expose participants to the many difficult issues surrounding migrant workers, worker's rights, rural poverty, and modern-day slavery, specifically in the Immokalee community located in Immokalee, Florida. The trip will engage participants with questions tied to immigration, especially in its connection to labor practices.
Institute for Migration and International Social Work (Chicago, IL)
Examines the impact of globalization and migration in producing challenges that cross national borders, and then asks how these problems should be addresses. Offered by Loyola Chicago's School of Social work, students are able to sub-specialize in the area of Immigration and Migration Studies.
Kino Border Immersion (KBI), Alternative Spring Break (Washington D.C., DC)
KBI brings together the resources of Georgetown University, the Jesuit Refugee Service-USA, the Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Borderlinks, and San Miguel Cristo Rey High School. The unique collaborative endeavor makes concrete Georgetown’s mission to educate for justice. The purpose of this alternative spring break program is to help students and faculty better understand issues surrounding immigration by building relationships with people living and working on the border and in southern Arizona.
Kino Border Initiative (KBI) Day Trip (Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona), Brophy High School (Phoenix , CA)
Seven day service trip through Borderlinks, concentrating on increasing border awareness and immigration issues.
Latin America Immersion, Bellarmine College Preparatory (San Jose, CA)
One week duration service trip that build houses for the poor, programmed through Amor Ministries.
During Easter break, mostly junior and senior students, members of the dad’s club, and faculty travel into Tijuana to literally build a foundation for the future for four to five families living in Tijuana. Under the direction of Amor Ministries, students work in groups of about 12 on 4-5 houses. During the building of each house, family members may very well be working side by side with the students as they build the house.
Mexico Service & Culture/Language Immersion, Bellarmine College Preparatroy (San Jose , CA)
One week duration service trip with Franciscans as local contacts but hoping for more Jesuit Involvement.
A group of students and faculty leaders will travel to Mexico for a 12-day Immersion in language, culture, and service. Starting in Mexico City the group will explore the vast capital city and familiarize themselves with the smells, the sights and the sounds of this metropolis of over 21 million people. Students then travel to the outskirts of Puebla, living in solidarity with the orphan boys at IPODERAC. The group completes 50 hours of service at the orphanage while living as the community lives and helping daily with jobs that have included harvesting alfalfa for goats, woodworking, gardening, and maintenance. After 6 days of work the group heads north to the small colonial town Guanajuato, where the group will explore many attractions and reflect on their experience at the orphanage. A final afternoon is spent back in Mexico City, where the group will further explore the city in a special walking tour.
Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America, Alternative Break (Cincinnati, OH)
Students help refugees move-in and help with household set-up for new arrivals. Students also tutor refugees in English.
Refugee Summer Internship Program (Worcester, MA)
Refugees are legally defined as people who are outside their countries because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, and who cannot or do not want to return home. As a humanitarian non-profit organization, LCS/SNE has two basic and closely related aims to protect refugees and seek ways to help them restart their lives in a new environment.
San Diego Border Immersion (Philadelphia, PA)
The San Diego Border Experience seeks to inform individuals of the various opinions of immigration by exposing volunteers to the faces behind the issue, and working in solidarity with those most closely affected by immigration. This program offers educational travel and service learning opportunities to engage with community development initiatives. Via International/Los Niños provides a framework to nourish personal development, foster community engagement, strengthen organizations, and promote global dialogue.
Service Immersion: Chimaltenango, Guatemala (Phoenix, AZ)
The trip gives students the opportunity to experience the life of “los pequeños,” through examining the social, political, economic, and religious justice issues specific to Guatemala.
Service Immersion: Guaymas, Mexico (San Jose , CA)
One week duration service trip with Franciscans as local contacts but hoping for more Jesuit Involvement.
Service Immersion: Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas (Phoenix, AZ)
Seven day service trip through Borderlinks, concentrating on increasing border awareness and immigration issues.
