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Alejandro Olayo-M茅ndez, S.J.

Assistant Professor

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Alejandro Olayo-M茅ndez, S.J.

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn 217

Telephone: 617-552-1605

Email: alejandro.olayomendez@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Universidad Pontificia de Mexico, Mexico
  • B.A., Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
  • M.S.W., Loyola University Chicago
  • M.Div., 艾可直播 College
  • M.Sc., University of Oxford
  • D.Phil., University of Oxford

Research Interests

Migration, Refugees, and Humanitarian Interventions

Expertise

  • Global Practice
  • Immigrants and Refugees
  • Innovations in Research Methods
  • Latinx Communities
  • Mental Health
  • Poverty
  • Spirituality

Profile

Dr. Olayo-M茅ndez developed his expertise by analyzing the interactions between migrants and humanitarian aid organizations along migration routes in Mexico and the ways these interactions shape the migratory processes in the region. He is particularly interested in the intersection of humanitarian aid and migration, as well as questions regarding human rights, inequality, transit migration, meso-level structures, and the so-called 鈥淢igration Industry.鈥� His聽latest report, which he co-authored with researchers from Harvard and Tufts, examines the physical and mental health of a growing number of asylum seekers who have been waiting along the northern Mexico border to apply for protection from violence and harm.

Alejandro has worked with Dr. Hein de Haas and Dr. Alexander Betts at the University of Oxford. He has collaborated with Jesuit Refugee Service by conducting interviews with internally displaced people (IDP) in Colombia and Tamil Nadu, India. He has also done clinical work with immigrant and refugee communities in Chicago, IL, and Spokane, WA. He is currently preparing a project to research the effects of 'Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)' on Mexican communities, humanitarian interventions, and the lived experiences of asylum seekers at the Mexico-US Border.

Alejandro is a Jesuit Priest from the West Coast Province in the U.S.

Selected Publications

ARTICLES

Diamond, M. B., Testa, L., Novak, C., Kempton-Amaral, K., Porteny, T., and Olayo-M茅ndez, A., (2020). A Population in Peril: A Health Crisis among Asylum Seekers on the Northern Border of Mexico. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Global Health Institute. Available from globalhealth.harvard.edu

Olayo-M茅ndez, A (2017). La 72: An Oasis along the Migration Routes in Mexico, Forced Migration Review, 56, 10-11

Olayo-M茅ndez, A (2017). 鈥楶rograma de la Frontera Sur鈥� and Interdiction, Peace Review, 29(1), 24-30

Olayo-M茅ndez, A., Haymes, S. N., & Vidal de Haymes, M. (2014). Mexican Migration-Corridor Hospitality, Peace Review, 26(2), 209-217

Olayo M茅ndez, J. A. (2006). Latino Parenting Expectations and Styles: A Literature Review, Protecting Children, 21(2), 53鈭�61


CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES
Kubal, A. and Olayo-M茅ndez, A.聽 (Forthcoming). Mirrors of Justice? Undocumented Immigrants in Courts in the United States and Russia, in R. Koulish & V. D. W. Maartje (eds.) Trump, Brexit and Fortress Europe. New York, Fordham University Press

Olayo-M茅ndez, A. (2019). The US-Mexico Border: More than a Political Line, in A. Ares, M. Garc铆a Dur谩n, J. Iglesias, C. Estrada Villase帽or (eds.) Migratory Flows at The Borders of Our World, Bogota, Universidad Javeriana.

Olayo-M茅ndez, A. (2019). La Esperanza: Una Categor铆a Teol贸gica para Acercarse a la Migraci贸n, in A. Carpio P茅rez and Y.B. Sol铆s Nicot (eds.) Migraci贸n y Religi贸n, Ciudad de M茅xico, Universidad Iberoamericana.

Clinical Practice Experience

Alejandro has done clinical work with migrant women in Chicago, IL, and was a school social worker at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, WA.

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