About Us

The Baylor Migration Project

Since 2014, more than 850,000 children and families have requested asylum in the United States from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The Global Hunger and Migration Project (GHMP) looks specifically at the drivers of migration flows and policy responses to them. The initial focus of the project is on the Central American refugee crisis. The GHMP builds teams of faculty and students who work with developing partnerships to conduct university-based research to identify promising practices and design effective interventions at each stage of the migrant journey.

Our work has been to understand this crisis. Why do these children make the decision to flee? What happens to them along the way and upon arrival in the United States? What can be done to improve home countries so that children are not forced to migrate, and how can we help the children who are on this journey or in the United States? Early on, our students expressed a desire to tell the stories of these children to a wider audience. This book is part of those efforts.

The GHMP operates within the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP). The BCHP determines what anti-hunger efforts are effective and provides support for communities in Texas and beyond. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the BCHP rolled out an emergency “Meals-to-You” program that served over 30 million meals in the summer of 2020. For more information about the BCHP, visit https://www.baylor.edu/hungerandpoverty/.