Articles, guides and broad resources:
- information for students related to race and ethnicity, socio-economic status, heritage seekers, first-generation, LGBTQ+, women, students with disabilities, religious diversity and adult study abroad.
- . Explore your global destination.
- An online study abroad guide for student written largely by former study abroad participants covering a wide range of topics and identities from diversity and inclusion to money matters to family matters.
- Resources related to accessibility, first generation students, gender, LGBTQ+, race and ethnicity, religion and spirituality and students with high financial need.
Accessibility
- - Empowering people with disabilities around the world to achieve their human rights through international exchange and international development.
- National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange: Step by Step Guide to the International Exchange Process
- Mobility International USA -
- US Department of Transportation article - Service Animals Including Emotional Support Animals
- is a helpline to assist travelers with disabilities and medical conditions, prior to getting to the airport. Travelers may call TSA Cares toll free at 1-855-787 2227 prior to traveling with questions about screening policies, procedures and what to expect at the security checkpoint.
- U.S. Department of State Students Abroad webpage
Race and Ethnicity
- written by students from a broad range of backgrounds about their study abroad experiences.
- : Helping students from diverse backgrounds find study abroad resources and obtain advice from study abroad mentors (some content in Spanish).
- addresses the challenges of reconciling one's ethnic and national identity while abroad and adapting to different attitudes toward racial difference and/or different kinds of prejudice.
- A digital travel platform that helps women of color travel more confidently, more adventurously, and more often.
LGBTQ+
- Equaldex is a collaborative knowledge base for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) movement. Includes an interactive map that offers information about legal status and social climate around a range of topics related to sexual identity, gender identity and discrimination.
- - country specific information related to sexual identity, maps on LGBTI rights and legislation around the world.
- dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
- includes international and travel resources for transgendered people
- : information for US students abroad compiled by NAFSA: Association of International Educators Rainbow SIG.
- U.S. Department of State: