Legislation, News, and Articles
I Didn’t Know
Jenny Fischer, August 3, 2022
Jenny is a PHD candidate who teaches at Ohio University and actively works with migrant farmworkers. In this heartfelt article she brings together children of migrants and children of farm owners to discuss the unknown.
Become a Missionary in Your Own Home
Veronica Rodriguez, August 12, 2022
This article was to invite parishioners to participate in the CMFN Sembrador formation of accompaniers. This includes both the Spanish and English translation.
H2A Workers in Ohio
Anisa Kline, February 28, 2022
The H-2A visa program allows growers to bring in seasonal workers on temporary agricultural visas, who then return to their home countries at the end of the growing season.
GIAN Forced Migration and Hospitality
September 2021
Hospitality was one specific way of rising to the challenge and the gift present in an encounter with those outside one’s own circle. The monks realized that the values they sought to cultivate had to be accompanied by a readiness to move beyond themselves in openness to others. Pope Francis. Fratelli Tutti (n. 90).
Phenomenology of Accompanamiento, Road to Transformation
Siobhan O'Donoghue, 2020
Accompaniment is a humanitarian approach that seeks to ameliorate the suffering of individuals and communities that are vulnerable, and often struggling with the effects of collective traumas. Despite the fact that accompaniment models are being utilized in various parts of the world, the topic has seldom been explored in the literature. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of accompaniment for migrants. Purposeful sampling was used to identify 28 participants who represented both accompaniers and the accompanied. Data were collected through 13 interviews and 3 focus groups and analyzed using Moustakas’ (1994) transcendental phenomenological method as a guide. Findings revealed the themes of manifestation of belief system, praxis, and transformation of self and society.