About Us
While U-LAMP’s primary mission is to provide academic, social and legal support to recently arrived immigrant minors, this project is also rooted in best practices found to
- Increase the academic achievement of first-generation college students
- Increase Latinx/é representation in legal and other immigration-related professions
- Create knowledge around unaccompanied minors and other immigrant youths
Our Story
Seeking to expand her work to include how Mexican and Central American youths who were detained and placed into removal proceedings understood this process, Dr. Isabel Martinez met with Professor Lenni Benson - Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law, and Founder and Senior Advisor of the Safe Passage Project - to discuss the possibilities of working together.
Their shared history and commitment to support unaccompanied minors in the United States has brought these two professors together to work in collaboration to create U-LAMP.
Their shared history and commitment to support unaccompanied minors in the United States has brought these two professors together to work in collaboration to create U-LAMP.
Services ProvidedU-LAMPers have specific goals, responsibilities, and foci they concentrate on when completing their service. This allows them to be able to do the best job that they can.
No task is too small for our U-LAMPers. |
ResearchIn order for U-LAMP to come into existence our Project Director, Isabel Martinez, had to design the project as well as a research proposal.
Here you will find our history as well as the research that will result from this great program! |