{"id":700,"date":"2022-08-24T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/?p=700"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:05:12","slug":"border-studies-program-offers-chance-to-learn-about-migrants-and-border-wall-firsthand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/2022\/08\/24\/border-studies-program-offers-chance-to-learn-about-migrants-and-border-wall-firsthand\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Studies Program Offers Chance to Learn about Migrants and Border Wall Firsthand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cfd\/files\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-03-13-at-4.18.36-PM-1-copy-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-281 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/files\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-03-13-at-4.18.36-PM-1-copy-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/files\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-03-13-at-4.18.36-PM-1-copy.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/>It\u2019s one thing to study the US\/Mexico border, US immigration policy, and the complex challenges facing migrants in the classroom. It\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nine students in BU\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>2022 Mexico-US Border Studies Program <span>had the opportunity to do both this year. To learn more about their expereince, read their stories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/border-studies-program-offers-firsthand-learning\/\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one thing to study the US\/Mexico border, US immigration policy, and the complex challenges facing migrants in the classroom. It\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Nine students in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}