Through this project-based class, students will partner with Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) to support their Resource Mobilization Team. With direction from Amanda Diaz at Freedom for Immigrants and with guidance of Advanced Lecturer Vivian Brates, who teaches the class Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border (Spanlang 108SL/ HUMRTS HUMRTS 108), students will compile, organize, and annotate existing resources intended to help individuals currently detained in immigration detention centers purse pro-se legal relief. The goal of the project is to build a resource library that FFI can use to connect detained individuals with the tools they need to advocate for themselves. Students enrolled in this community-engaged learning course must commit to participate in bi-weekly hybrid check-ins on Zoom with the whole team, at times and dates to be determined based on the mutual availability of the students, the instructor and the community partner. Students will work together to identify the scope of materials to include in the resource library, and divide up the responsibility for systematically gathering and indexing existing materials; As part of the collaboration, students will also visit the Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border class to share their work-in-progress and receive feedback from students who are concurrently volunteering with the FFI hotline, creating a space for interdisciplinary learning and exchange. Unit enrollment should aline with anticipated weekly time commitment including resource discovery, review, organization, coordination with FFI, and group check-ins. Students will not be working directly with clients for this project, but the resource they are helping to build is intended to help FFI efficiently lower barriers to information access for migrants in detention. This course has been certified as a Cardinal Course by the Haas Center for Public Service.
1-3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
Through this project-based class, students will partner with Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) to support their Resource Mobilization Team. With direction from Amanda Diaz at Freedom for Immigrants and with guidance of Advanced Lecturer Vivian Brates, who teaches the class Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border (Spanlang 108SL/ HUMRTS 108), students will compile, organize, and annotate existing resources intended to help individuals currently detained in immigration detention centers purse pro-se legal relief. The goal of the project is to build a resource library that FFI can use to connect detained individuals with the tools they need to advocate for themselves. Students enrolled in this community-engaged learning course must commit to participate in bi-weekly hybrid check-ins on Zoom with the whole team, at times and dates to be determined based on the mutual availability of the students, the instructor and the community partner. Students will work together to identify the scope of materials to include in the resource library, and divide up the responsibility for systematically gathering and indexing existing materials; As part of the collaboration, students will also visit the Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border class to share their work-in-progress and receive feedback from students who are concurrently volunteering with the FFI hotline, creating a space for interdisciplinary learning and exchange. Unit enrollment should aline with anticipated weekly time commitment including resource discovery, review, organization, coordination with FFI, and group check-ins. Students will not be working directly with clients for this project, but the resource they are helping to build is intended to help FFI efficiently lower barriers to information access for migrants in detention. This course has been certified as a Cardinal Course by the Haas Center for Public Service.
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.