We are now accepting applications for Fall 2020!
The application deadline for Fall 2020 is March 15th.
This is the time to learn alongside communities on the frontline about the salient issues emerging on the border. Your engagement today will help shape our tomorrow. Apply now!
Please contact us with any questions!
NEWS ALERT! Dr. Geoffrey Boyce and Dr. Sarah Launius, with the support of the University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute and the Earlham College Border Studies Program, just made publicly available the following report on The Immigration Dragnet and the Disposession of Household and Community Wealth in the United States. You can download a pdf of the complete report here. You can find an executive summary of the report in Spanish here.
Other Happenings on the Border
In spring 2019 BSP, we welcomed for 14 students from Earlham, Oberlin, Kalamazoo, Macalester, and DePauw.
To support recruitment efforts and campus life across Great Lakes College Association (GLCA) schools, BSP has sponsored a successful series of speaking tours with partner activists, organizers and speakers from the borderlands and beyond. In fall 2017, and spring and fall 2018 speaking events took place at Earlham, Oberlin, Hope, Kenyon, Depauw, Albion, Kalamazoo, Wooster and University of Ohio Wesleyan. Featured speakers included representatives from Mariposas Sin Fronteras, No More Deaths, Servicios Universitarios y Redes de Conocimiento de Oaxaca (SURCO), and journalist Todd Miller. These events have provided powerful learning opportunities at host campuses, and outreach and fundraising for participating organizations.
The Border Studies Spanish program is also growing, with beginning, intermediate and advanced courses co-convened with Tucson community members on Monday and Tuesday evenings. These co-convened courses provide a service to the Tucson community and advance BSP’s collective commitment to promoting language justice; and they provide powerful opportunities for BSP students to interact with and learn alongside a broad cross-section of the local Tucson community. Students that are fluent in Spanish have also been invited to participate in the Tucson Language Justice Collective (LJC), a grassroots group that provides Spanish-English interpretation for grassroots community meetings and events. Director of the Spanish Language Curriculum Cristen Poynter and Academic and Community Director Mari Galup are two core members of the Tucson LJC.
In January 2018, Director of Student Services Kate Morgan-Olsen and Academic Director Geoffrey Alan Boyce collaborated in the release of a new human rights report by the organization No More Deaths, which documents US Border Patrol practices that contribute to the crisis of death and disappearance in the Arizona borderlands. You can read the report here at The Disappeared Report webpage. Finally, check out these additional recent single and co-authored publications from Geoff Boyce:
Geographies of Deterrence a podcast with Geoff Boyce and Sarah Launius, February 2019
A Case for Dismantling the Border Patrol NACLA Report on the Americas, February 2018
Appearing Out of Place: Automobility and the Everyday Policing of Threat and Suspicion on the US/Canada Frontier Political Geography, May 2018
