At UC San Diego, the Mexican Migration Field Research Program is a year long community based research program focused on immigration and current policy.
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3/Latinx student's often have to advocate for themselves even in spaces that should hold space for them.
2/One element that was focused on was how Latinx students may not involve themselves in organizations around campus focused on advocacy and activism.
1/MMFRP students in Winter Quarter 2023 focused on the spaces outside of the classroom where Latinx students may often abstain from participating in.
2/ As UCSD works towards becoming an HSI, it is crucial to recognize that many students require additional resources as they are handling different stressors that can impact their mental health.
1/ In the Winter Quarter of 2023, a group of MMFRP students conducted surveys and interviews regarding the academic experiences of Latinx students at UCSD.
Our collaborative 2021 report on access to communication in immigration detention: Thread 3:
ICE detention and abusive telecommunications corporations cut off immigrants from family, advocates & legal support. Calls are expensive & ICE punishes those who speak out about abuse.
Read the report by @ucsdmmfrp, @ThinkLawLab & GCIC here: bit.ly/CutOffReport
Our collaborative 2021 report on access to communication in immigration detention: Thread 2:
ICE detention and abusive telecommunications corporations cut off immigrants from family, advocates & legal support. These barriers seriously impede access to counsel. Read the report by @ucsdmmfrp, @ThinkLawLab & GCIC here: bit.ly/CutOffReport
Our collaborative 2021 report on access to communication in immigration detention: Thread 1.
ICE detention and abusive telecommunications corporations cut off immigrants from family, advocates & legal support. This silencing is a form of “disappearance.” Read the report by @ucsdmmfrp, @ThinkLawLab & the Gulf Coast Immigration Collaborative here: bit.ly/CutOffReport
Mexican Migration Field Research Program retweeted
In a pedagogy of relationships, building community is not a sideshow to the learning goal; it IS the learning goal.
(my notes from the beautiful book @SeedSparkLive)
Mexican Migration Field Research Program retweeted
This giving Tuesday please consider mmfrp.org/donate/. We train bilingual students to do cutting-edge, community-action research w/migrants. We run on a shoestring & donations enable low-income, first-generation students to do original research on pressing migration issues.
This yr, mid pandemic, 35 bilingual @ucsdmmfrp students & I collaborated w/ immigration advocacy orgs to interview asylum se ekers trapped @ border & in detention. We also talked to Latinx students @UCSD.
Here: the reports that came out: mmfrp.org/research/
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Mexican Migration Field Research Program retweeted
Our 2021 work, designed w migrants & advocacy orgs, was used @ Inter-Amer Comm on Human R; in campaign 4 migrants' right to counsel in detention; to design a guide to help asylum seekers @border find services; + to push UCSD to support Latinx students. Help us do more in 2022! 🙏🏽
A thread on our work this year - check it out!
This yr, mid pandemic, 35 bilingual @ucsdmmfrp students & I collaborated w/ immigration advocacy orgs to interview asylum se ekers trapped @ border & in detention. We also talked to Latinx students @UCSD.
Here: the reports that came out: mmfrp.org/research/
Titles&links ⬇️
We have built so much while working with migrants and each other in Tijuana shelters the past two years. Check out our new website! mmfrp.org (and consider donating to the refugee-serving orgs we work with!) @ccisucsd @USMEXUCSD