Using field notebooks and their eyes and ears, undergraduate students from New Mexico State University have partnered with the University of Texas at El Paso and five other universities under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, which began in May, allows students to get firsthand experience in qualitative research.
El Paso’s Lights for Liberty rally in July drew a few hundred people to protest migrant detention camps.
Students involved in New Mexico State University’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program in 2020 were unable to do the kind of face-to-face research possible in previous years.
Daniela Navarro, a fourth-year psychology student, along with other undergraduate students from around the country, will present their research findings on the inhumane sanitary conditions during COVID-19 of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers on Feb. 11 through a Zoom webinar
Además de una crisis por el coronavirus, los inmigrantes en centros de detención están viviendo una crisis humanitaria por la falta de productos de higiene y equipos de protección necesarios para prevenir el COVID-19.