Research
This project includes two research foci. The first focus examines the lives of unaccompanied child and teenage minors who have been apprehended, detained and placed in removal proceedings and their understandings, as well as the understandings of service providers, about age, immigration, or the criminalization of youth immigrants, and human rights for children and adolescents.
The second focus aims to understand the impact that participating in ULAMP has on Latina/o college students. Data includes pre and post ULAMP surveys and interviews to examine changes in knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and academic achievement related to this internship, weekly reflection papers, etc.
The second focus aims to understand the impact that participating in ULAMP has on Latina/o college students. Data includes pre and post ULAMP surveys and interviews to examine changes in knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and academic achievement related to this internship, weekly reflection papers, etc.
Second Annual Latina/o Studies Association Conference
From July 7-9, 2016, U-LAMPers Arlienny Hernandez, Magdalena Oropeza, Nathaly Ramirez and Myriam Santamaria, along with Director Dr. Isabel Martinez and John Jay Professor and Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program co-director Jose Luis Morin, attended and presented at the second annual Latina/o Studies Association conference in Pasadena, California. Titled “When Latina/o College Students Become Legal Advocates: The Case of U-LAMP,” the group’s presentation focused on the underrepresentation of Latina/os in the legal profession and the ways in which the service-learning project, U-LAMP, addresses this need. Students focused on both findings from qualitative interviews Dr. Martinez has conducted with former U-LAMPers (Nathaly Ramirez) while the other students discussed how their work as U-LAMPers impacted their self-efficacy (Arlienny Hernandez), career goals (Myriam Santamaria) and approaches to advocating for justice (Magdalena Oropeza).
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Panel Presentations: Professor José Luis Morín (far left), Diversifying the Legal Profession to Meet Latina/o Community Needs: Challenges and Initiatives Professor, Isabel Martínez (middle left), When Latina/o College Students become Legal Advocates: The Case of U-LAMP Nathaly Ramirez (middle right), “Los unicos que pueden sacar sus familias adelante”: Understanding unaccompanied minors through U-LAMP Arlienny Hernandez (far right), From Client to Crusader: Looking for Relief, Finding a Calling Magdalena Oropeza (center left), Online Advocacy: Bringing digital life to the issue of unaccompanied minors Myriam Santamaria (center right), Court Dates and Curling Irons: Narrowing career goals while supporting unaccompanied children and teenage immigrants |