Border Studies
We all have the responsibility to understand the human, environmental, and societal costs to current and historical border enforcement policies.
The Border Studies Program (BSP) is a semester-long program based in Tucson, Arizona. The program consists of homestays, internships in grassroots and/or nonprofit organizations, and excursions – as well as a community-driven academic curriculum. Immersed in the southern Arizona borderlands, BSP offers students hands-on experience in contemporary justice struggles and an expansive curriculum that valorizes grassroots knowledge and challenges students, staff, and faculty to understand and articulate the context and implications of our own positionalities.
Themes and Commitments
BSP explores urgent contemporary topics in the following tracks:
Migrant Justice
Environmental Justice and Sustainability
Program Information and Application
Open to undergraduate students from any college or university! The semester-length program is offered in both the fall and spring semesters.
Fall Semester
Spring Semester
More information and application:
Border Studies Fast Facts
years of academic and cultural immersion in the Mexico/US borderlands – the longest-running off-campus study program focusing on migrant justice!
of Border Studies Program participants engage in a field placement (internship) with a community organization
program alumni from more than 30 participating colleges and universities
hours of community engagement by program participants with borderlands community and justice organizations