What we do
The Integration and Belonging Hub is a collaborative community of researchers, mentors, practitioners, and partner organizations. Find opportunities to engage in research or experiential learning that will empower you to make change in the world. You’ll gain the expertise and experience you need to become an agent of change in your own community and beyond.
Our students serve on guided internships at migrant community and integration organizations.
Each year, visiting scholars contribute and share their expertise on refugee and integration policy.
Learn more about ways you can help promote academic freedom through Scholars at Risk.
Switchboard provides tools, learning opportunities, research, and technical assistance covering a range of topics related to the newcomer experience.
ACE: African Community Education has been a consistent partner for our internship program. Several of its team members are Clark University graduates, and have been involved with the Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging concentration at The Department of Sustainability and Social Justice. Executive director and co-founder, Kaska Yawo is a consultant to four universities in Worcester, including Clark.
ARISE: Advocacy for Refugee and Immigrant Services has hosted multiple past and current Hub interns, and presented a session to the Hub’s interns in 2022 about their missions and projects of training ‘refugee advocates’.
Center for Lebanese Studies: CLS is “an independent academic institution established in 1984 to undertake impartial and balanced research and contribute to Lebanon’s development. CLS is affiliated with the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College, and the History Department at the University of Cambridge and works rigorously in conducting research and organizing conferences that address key issues in Lebanon.” Cathrine Brun, the CLS Deputy Director for Research has written multiple articles on refugees and belonging.
PROOF: Media for Social Justice: Founded by Leora Kahn, this organization “creates visual documentary projects that become sustainable educational tools in regions riven by recent armed conflict and atrocities”.
Share the Platform: An organization co-founded by Alfred Bobo, Anita Fábos Leora Kahn, and Craig Mortley, Share the Platform “supports and trains institutions and people from both refugee and non-refugee backgrounds to move towards full partnerships to create meaningful change in program design, policy making, and action.”
Urban Action Institute, Worcester State University: The Hub has worked with Adam Saltzman, director of the Urban Action Institute, Worcester State University, in developing collaborations with local universities, including Worcester State, to facilitate learning programs and academic collaboration, between scholars, students, and refugees.
We welcome the contributions of students, community organizations and scholars from around the world. Find out how you might get involved.
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