Carlos Mayorga, MA student of Hispanic Studies, contributed to an international reporting project that aired on PBS NewsHour, offering an inside look at his fieldwork on border walls and global migration.
As part of the first cohort of the Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies, Carlos participated in the Global Reporting Program at UBC’s School of Journalism. This program offered him the opportunity to join an international reporting initiative examining border walls around the world.
From September 2024 to April 2025, teams of four student journalists conducted fieldwork across three regions: Estonia and Lithuania; Morocco and Spain; and the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Together, they produced three independent but interconnected stories exploring how borders shape human movement, political discourse, and lived realities.
One of those stories—focused on Haitians displaced by violence and facing deportation after crossing into the Dominican Republic—aired on PBS NewsHour and features Carlos’s collaborative reporting work.
We congratulate Carlos Mayorga, along with all participating UBC student journalists—including Zachary Gaouad (MA student of French Studies), whose reporting with the Morocco-Spain team is forthcoming—for their remarkable work in global reporting, migration storytelling, and cross-cultural field research.
