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.

Welcome to the D.C. Schools Project at Georgetown University's Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service (CSJ)!  We are a literacy organization that has been serving Washington, D.C.'s low-income immigrant community since 1984.  Each year, about 175 Georgetown students serve 150 K-12 students and more than 100 adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students in D.C. public schools, community-based organizations and homes of immigrant families.

Jesuit Refugee Service supports a negotiated resolution of the armed civil conflict in Colombia and advocates for policies that will lead to a just and sustainable peace in that country. Toward that end, JRS has successfully advocated to encourage U.S. policy makers to shift the focus of U.S. foreign aid to Colombia away from military support, and toward greater contributions to humanitarian aid and programs for sustainable development.
 

Present in Haiti since the early 1990s, Jesuit Refugee Service was one of the first NGOs to react to the earthquake. Our aim is to provide psychosocial support, education, emergency assistance and capacity building training to displaced communities.
 

The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal is a scholarly publication that is dedicated to the advancement of legal knowledge in the field of immigration law. The Journal is published quarterly and is dedicated to exploring and critically analyzing international and domestic events as they shape the field of immigration law. Each issue features articles by scholars and legal practitioners, as well as a significant number of student notes and a section reviewing current developments in immigration.

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.

ISIM focuses on all aspects of international migration, including the causes of and potential responses to population movements, immigration and refugee law and policy, comparative migration studies, the integration of immigrants into their host societies, and the effects of international migration on social, economic, demographic, foreign policy and national security concerns. ISIM also studies internal displacement, with particular attention to the forced movements of people for reasons that would make them refugees if they crossed an international border.

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.

As we meet and work with refugees who have confronted evil and suffering, it is important to remind them and ourselves as well to keep in touch with God, the source of all good and love. This is the only way to withstand evil.
 

The Social Justice Ministry responds in prayer and reflection, direct service, education, advocacy, and donations to the needs of the parish, to the social needs in the diverse urban diocese and community who are our neighbors, and beyond these borders to a sister parish and national and international Jesuit social services. When program priorities are being set and choices made about resource allocation, the Ministry actively advocates for preferential treatment for the poor and marginalized in our community in light of the Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference.

This program brings together immigrants, academics from different disciplines, migrant service providers, theologians, and Church leaders to consider many issues related to the spirituality of migrants and the emerging theology of migration, including root causes of migration, integration of immigrants into society, and the ways in which the Church addresses the needs of migrants. The project is driven by a desire to increase public understanding of the academic and theological foundations of the Catholic Church’s teaching on issues of migration, and to assist the Church’s ministries and its public policy work on behalf of migrants and newcomers.