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Center for Forced Migration Studies' Summer Institute: "The Refugee Status Determination & Asylum Process", June 1-7, 2014
Apply Online: http://www.northwesternevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x150301cc6&
The CFMS Summer Institute on the Refugee Status Determination & Asylum Process provides an intensive and comparative understanding of emerging asylum issues including representation of LGBT, transgender, unaccompanied minors and SGBV claims and workshops where you will be able to develop your interviewing skills, how to document cases and address issues of credibility, learn how to work cross-professionally with experts and effectively present an asylum claim.
The CFMS Summer Institute is an intensive, rigorous seven-day, non-degree earning certificate program. Through lectures, focused discussions, workshops, films and simulation exercises, the CFMS Summer Institute, held at Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, IL, provides a forum to exchange ideas, build relationships, develop new approaches and policy recommendations and learn about new developments in the field. Past participants have included government officials, non-governmental organization personnel, university faculty and graduate students (select advanced undergraduate students may seek permission to attend).
Summer Institute Director: Galya Ruffer, CFMS Founding Director.
2014 Faculty include: Barbara Harrell-Bond, (University of Oxford); Michael Kagan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Uzoamaka Nzliebe (Northwestern University); Miriam Marton (University of Connecticut); Rachel Levitan (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society); Sioban Albiol (DePaul University) and representatives from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Asylum Division.
Institute Fees: Registration - 800USD (Does not include meals or housing). Late Registration - 1,000USD (After May 2). Limited scholarships available (Inquire at [log in to unmask]).
For more information and the complete schedule, please visit our website:
http://www.bcics.northwestern.edu/programs/migration/summer.html
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