The Reimagining Refuge Network is a California-wide community of practitioners, artists, and scholars working to imagine, develop, and build alternatives to the current US immigration system. We provide seed grants for research, art, and community-based programs that reimagine refuge. We also bring participants together at regular convenings and workshops that foster cross-sector, interdisciplinary innovation, community-building, and co-creation.

Our program invests in innovative scholarship, organizing, and creative works, and we prioritize projects led by California’s immigrant scholars and communities. Seed grant recipients may conduct traditional research, arts, films, or collaborations with community groups, reaching scholars, policymakers, activists, and migrant communities. Fellows dedicate time to research and/or community praxis, generating a diverse array of rigorous new evidence and ideas about the asylum system in California and in comparative perspective. At the end of their term, each fellow produces a final product to share publicly. Through this program, we elevate the work of a new generation of leaders in immigrant justice, seeding new ideas and connecting isolated local practices by bringing them into dialogue.