{"id":247,"date":"2023-09-22T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T23:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:09:32","slug":"border-immersion-trip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/border-immersion-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Immersion Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    \n<component\n  is=\"media-context\"\n  class=\"media-context media-context--light  media-context--image-portrait\"\n>\n  <div class=\"media-context__inner grid\">\n    <div class=\"media-context__context\">\n          \n<component is=\"context\" class=\"context context--medium context--dark \">\n          <p>For several years Belk Chapel has partnered with Dr. Commins, Shelton Professor of Political Science to lead a Border Immersion Trip to El Paso. This border immersion experience provides students with opportunities to learn more about the complex realm of immigration and human migration, through academic analysis and in-person encounters with a variety of key border partners. Students take a semester long course exploring critical issues through a variety of lenses (academic, religious, interfaith) prior to traveling to the border for the immersion experience. During the trip students have plenty of opportunities for on-the-ground learning and service to the community.<\/p>\n\n    <\/component>    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"media-context__image\">\n                              <picture>\n      <source media=\"(min-width:768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Borderwall.jpg\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n        class=\"media-context__img\"\n        src=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Borderwall.jpg\"\n        alt=\"Students look through the border wall\"\n      \/>\n    <\/picture>\n  \n                  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/component>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025 Trip<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/2025BorderImmTrip.jpg\" alt=\"2025 Border immersion trip group photo\" class=\"wp-image-3586\" style=\"width:435px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/2025BorderImmTrip.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/02\/2025BorderImmTrip-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 2025 Border Immersion Trip is composed of eleven students, led by Dr. Maggie Commins, Dr. Adrian Bird, and Darryl White, Sr. This will be a week-long trip, and will be split between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico; they are traveling to the border to learn about and experience one of the largest humanitarian crises in our world today. Their travels will include conversations and encounters from all points of view, from US Border Patrol to families inside the migrant shelters. Paired with a semester-long course taught by the three professors leading the trip, the critical immigration issues are explored through academic, political, diversity, and interfaith lenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/borderimmersion2025\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Border Immersion Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2024 Trip<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Bordergrp.jpg\" alt=\"Border trip group photo\" class=\"wp-image-256\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5387205387205387;width:425px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Bordergrp.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/09\/Bordergrp-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 2024 Border Immersion trip to Douglas, Arizona\/Agua Prieta, Sonora, took place May 5-10, 2024. This was the first time we partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/fronteradecristo.org\/\">Frontera de Cristo<\/a>, a Presbyterian Border Ministry that has worked at the border for 25 years. For more information about the trip, please check out our blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/birda64.wixsite.com\/borderimmersion\/my-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Border Immersion Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please contact Dr. Commins (<a href=\"mailto:comminsm@queens.edu\">comminsm@queens.edu<\/a>) or Chaplain Adrian Bird (<a href=\"mailto:birda@queens.edu\">birda@queens.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Trip The 2025 Border Immersion Trip is composed of eleven students, led by Dr. Maggie Commins, Dr. Adrian Bird, and Darryl White, Sr. This will be a week-long trip, and will be split between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico; they are traveling to the border to learn about and experience one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_with-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/spirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}