Border Studies Program Offers Chance to Learn about Migrants and Border Wall Firsthand
It’s one thing to study the US/Mexico border, US immigration policy, and the complex challenges facing migrants in the classroom. It’s another kind of learning altogether to travel with BU faculty to the Rio Grande Valley to see the border wall and meet the migrants and the people working with them firsthand. Nine students in […]
BU students experience migration crisis first hand at Texas-Mexico border
A group of Boston University students wanted to tackle issues head on and traveled down to the Texas-Mexico border to witness the immigration crisis themselves as part of the Center on Forced Displacement’s Border Studies Program. Throughout the weeklong trip, held during spring break, students traveled to a variety of locations along the Lower Rio […]