
Fordham University’s Initiative on Migrants, Migration and Human Dignity believes that the dignity and uniqueness of all persons is core to the Fordham University mission. As such, we stand in solidarity with migrants and members of our community who are affected by migration policies.
Contact the Initiative
Carey Kasten
Director, Initiative on Migrants, Migration and Human Dignity
kasten@fordham.edu
212-636-6145
Meet the Team
This initiative is made possible with the generous support of the Cummings Foundation and is led by an interdisciplinary team of faculty:
- Gregory Donovan, Department of Communication and Media Studies
- Leo Guardado, Department of Theology
- Annika Hinze, Department of Political Science
- Carey Kasten, Department of Languages and Cultures
- Sarah Lockhart, Department of Political Science
- Jim McCartin, Department of Theology
- Alma Rodenas-Ruano, Department of Natural Sciences
Five Goals
The Initiative works toward the following five goals:
1) To identify and cultivate student leaders committed to becoming activists, policy-makers, and researchers who are dedicated to affirming the human dignity of migrants and prepared to address complex challenges related to migration in US society into the future.
2) To support Fordham students, faculty, and staff in the practice of accompanimentwith migrant communities at the Mexico-USA border, in the New York metropolitan area and at Fordham itself.
3) To support faculty and student researchthat serves migrant communities and migrant-serving organizations at the Mexico-USA border and in the New York metropolitan area.
4) To cultivate sustainable, collaborative relationshipswith local, national and international academic, policy and community-based organizations who serve as partners to expand accompaniment with migrant communities as well as research that serves these communities.
5) To serve as a model and leader in migration accompaniment for Jesuit institutions across the United States, promoting spiritual-affective, intellectual and practical engagement with migration that leads to long-term personal, professional and intellectual growth and advocates for policy change both within and outside of academic communities. We are in the early stages of a collaboration with Boston College to establish a migration network among US Jesuit universities where we can collectively activate this goal.
Meet Our Collaborators
The Initiative collaborates with the following organizations: