04/23/2019
Migration & Mobility Projects for 2019-20 to be announced by the end of May--look for familiar names like this one and check out their amazing work!
As UndocuCarolina's inaugural year comes to a close we've been taking stock, and we're pretty proud of all we've accomplished. Check it out!
1. Conducted four UndocuCarolina Ally Trainings, educating over 150 UNC administrative staff and faculty on the history, legislation, and current realities of DACA and undocumented students and equipping them with the necessary knowledge and resources to act as allies to undocumented and DACA students and colleagues.
2. Carried out four community roundtables, bringing representatives of local and regional immigrant justice organizations to campus to dialogue with UNC humanists on pressing topics of intense public debate (DACA, the Muslim ban, sanctuary, and healthcare).
3. Organized a day-long series of events in celebration of MLK Day, including a teach-in with 30 high school and college students, a screening of the new film, The Unafraid Documentary, and a panel discussion with the film’s protagonists and local undocumented student organizers, with nearly 150 people in the audience—the great majority from beyond UNC.
4. Brought esteemed migration scholar Dr. Sarah Horton to campus to present research from her 2016 book, They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among U.S. Farmworkers, a talk that was enthusiastically attended by over 100 students and faculty.
5. Hosted Dr. Milena Melo, a recent PhD and DACA recipient herself, for a public talk highlighting her research on the experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrants seeking access to life-saving dialysis.
6. Held four working group meetings, in which a multidisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty shared drafts of our work on the subjects of Im/migration, Illegality, and Citizenship for small-group feedback, critique, and encouragement.
7. Created a professional identity for UndocuCarolina, including logo, “branding” guidelines, and a social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.
8. Funded a graduate student assistant for the full year whose support was integral to all of the above.
Congratulations, team! Barbara Sostaita, Rubes Quiz, Ricky Hurtado, Joz P-rez, Angela Stuesse, Raul Pinto, and Todd Ramón Ochoa, what accomplishments we have to celebrate. It's been a pleasure working alongside each of you as well as the various organizations we represent: LatinxEd, Carolina Latinx Center, NC Justice Center, Apoyo- Centro para la Comunidad.
We are so grateful to UNC Humanities for the Public Good Initiative, UNC Global, UNC Global Studies, and the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies Outreach Program for their support in making all of the above possible.
Stay tuned for the launch of the UndocuCarolina website and all the exciting programming we're planning for year two. :)
