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Immigrants Rights Project in New York seeks a Summer Intern
The Immigrants Rights Project in New York seeks a Summer Intern to Research Immigrant Detention on Long Island.
Specifically, the intern will research the following:
* Are there any organizations/groups that are working with detainees and/or their family members? If so, which groups? What services are they providing?
* Where are detainees from LI held initially? In what detention centers are they subsequently held?
* What are the circumstances surrounding their detention? More specifically, how, where, and why were they picked up? Who arrested them ( e.g., local police, ICE, bounty hunters, etc.)? Are there any patterns (e.g., particular areas, ethnicities/races, etc.?)
* What are the main needs of family members of detainees?
WHAT WE OFFER
We will orient you to the program, the work and to the American Friends Service Committee. You will have regular supervision and before leaving, an opportunity to sit with the supervisor and evaluate your experience with her or him. We offer a modest stipend.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In the NYMetro Internship you will learn by doing, hearing, speaking and seeing. With staff support you will participate directly with clients and research projects. You will work along with us and you will ask questions and we'll get into discussions about real-life issues.
The learning experience will involve increasing understanding of how skill-building and direct exposure to issues (experiencing and
responding) inform one another.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Must be in college or graduate school or thinking seriously about career direction.
* Referral by an educational institution for a required internship is a plus.
* Must be able to give at least 21 hours a week (and a minimum of 168 hours total) to the Summer Internship.
* Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with supervision.
* Ability to work well with people from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and to develop rapport with program clients.
* Interest in learning and applying Quaker values of peace, social justice, and equality in the work environment.
* Must have basic organizational skills.
Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing.
* Computer literate in a Windows XP environment, Outlook or other email, and Internet.
* An interest in immigrants' rights issues
* Preferably based on LI
* At least conversational in Spanish
* Ability to drive and access to private transportation preferred.
HOW DO I APPLY? Follow the instructions below -
To apply electronically:
Write us a letter of interest. Send it along with your resume to awright@afsc.org
Respond to the essay questions you will find on our website: http://www.afsc.org/nymetro/Internships/summerInternships.htm - look under HOW DO I APPLY for Respond to These Essay Questions. Click on the link, complete questions and send it as directed.
APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL WE HAVE FILLED THIS ONE POSITION.
We regret that we are not able to accept phone calls about this program.
We do accept students for internships in all our programs to satisfy academic requirement during the school year. See Other Internships and Alternative Arrangements.
OUR MISSION
The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), which upholds the worth of every individual and the transforming power of love. AFSC staff members are committed to promoting and practicing nonviolence in their work toward establishing peace and social justice. The AFSC community seeks to transform conditions and relationships both in the world and in ourselves which threaten to overwhelm what is precious in human beings. The AFSC involves people of many faiths and backgrounds who share its values and bring to its work a rich variety of experiences and spiritual insights.
The American Friends Service Committee is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Organization. Qualified persons are encouraged to become involved in AFSC at all levels regardless of their religious affiliation, race, sex, sexual orientation or nature of disability.
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