Collaborative on Global Children's Issues

Katharine Donato, Donald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration, School of Foreign Service; Elizabeth Ferris, Research Professor, Institute for the Study of International Migration | April 20, 2022

Mobilizing a Constituency for Refugee and Migrant Children: Experiential Learning in Centennial Lab Course at Georgetown Response

For the past several years we have co-taught an experiential course on refugee and migrant children. Thanks to generous support from the GHR Foundation, the course has included a week-long international trip to see firsthand how children are treated…

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown Unit

The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service was founded in 1919 as the first school of international affairs in the United States. It offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs in Washington, D.C., and through Georgetown's campus in…

Institute for the Study of International Migration Georgetown Unit

Established in 1998, the Institute for the Study of International Migration is a research institute at the School of Foreign Service applying the best in social science, legal, and policy expertise to the complex and controversial issues raised by…

Main Campus Georgetown Unit

The Main Campus is the administrative center of Georgetown University and home to six of its schools: the College of Arts & Sciences, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the McDonough School of Business, the McCourt School of Public…

Dealing with Refugees as a Political, Economic, and Humanitarian Problem Video

The international crisis over refugees has significantly worsened in the past decade. As of mid-2023, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had tracked at least 110 million people in the world who have been forcibly displaced, an increase…

“Alone and Exploited”? Video

In February 2023, the New York Times published “Alone and Exploited,” a harrowing article on the experiences of newly-arrived migrant children in the United States who are often exploited for their work in dangerous jobs that violate child labor…

Rethinking the Northern Triangle Video

The Georgetown Americas Institute’s Central America in Focus series will host three conversations about the policy, financial, and civil society dimensions of the challenges facing the region. The series will bring together stakeholders from the…