Newsletters & News Archive

Major legal victory for PDHRP & Nixon Peabody in pro bono deportation case.

Man returned to US from Honduras after being deported and 13 years away.

Center Co-director Daniel Kanstroom presented as part of a panel "Lives in Limbo: Immigration as a Human Rights Issue" in Cambridge, MA.  Access video here.

Center co-director Brinton Lykes interviewed on Rochester, NY NPR station after receiving the International White Dove Award

Center Visiting Scholar Dr. Ramsay Liem commented on possibilities that might arise from talks between the US and North Korea in a letter to the Boston Globe.

Festschrift published in honor of Center Visiting Scholar and Guatemalan anthropologist Ricardo Falla, SJ. Center co-director Prof. Brinton Lykes contributes a chapter.

Center co-director Daniel Kanstroom gave a lecture at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York, previewing his forthcoming book, "Deportation World."

Center co-director Lykes receives 2017 Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action.

Center protests Trump executive order blocking refugee and other legal entries to the US.

Jesuits defend human rights leaders in Honduras after attacks

Read the letter defending Ismael Moreno, SJ, a human rights activist in Honduras here.

Northern Light: A Syrian Refugee Flees America

Center Visiting Scholar Professor Laurie Johnston shared the story of a Syrian refugee mother and young daughter escaping the US to seek asylum in Canada in Commonweal magazine.

Read Johnston's article here.

Center certificate recipient Gabriela Távara Vásquez awarded a pair of prestigious awards

Read more about Távara Vásquez's awards here.

Center Visiting Scholar Claudia Escobar receives prestigious ​Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy 

Read more about Escobar's award here.

Center Co-Director Kanstroom quoted in Christian Science Monitor article

"Why Trump immigration reform faces uphill battle? The GOP"

Refugee ban a loss for Worcester

Former CHRIJ certificate recipient and BC Ph.D. student in Sociology, Adam Saltsman, wrote an op-ed in the Worcester Telegram.