The CMSC’s Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers’ Study Abroad Program will offer three 4-week sessions from July 15 to August 22, 2021, with each cohort composed of 40 DACA recipients, who have secured USCIS Advance Parole travel authorization for educational purposes through our program.
During each 4-week travel-study experience, the participating Dreamers will be immersed into a comprehensive language and cultural educational program organized by the CMSC in collaboration with Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and hosted by the Centro Internacional de Lenguas, Arte y Cultura Paulo Freire (CILAC Freire), our 20-year partner institution in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. This month-long educational program will consist of historical, cultural, linguistic, and academic lectures (cátedras) on social movements, the Mexican educational, economic and political systems, various museum and archeological visits, with a leadership development focus.
Moreover, selected participants will have the opportunity to participate in seminars on Chicano Studies and the Mexican Diaspora, Public Policy Planning and Collaboration between California and Mexico and Los Angeles and Mexico City; and the evolving U.S.-Mexico relationship under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) under the new Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration.
Program participants will also have a unique opportunity to conduct independent travel and ethnographic research on their family origins, which will allow Dreamers to visit their birthplace for 2-3 weeks, and will be required to produce a 10-page ethnographic-research paper based on their findings. A selection of these research papers will be published by the CMSC and provide human stories to script narratives for documentaries and academic presentations.
Moreover, we encourage Dreamers from anywhere in the world to apply, as long as they are fluent Spanish-speakers, given that the entire program will be taught in Spanish.
Dreamers living anywhere in the continental U.S.
are welcome to apply.
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