The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering the following four short courses during the month of June 2013:
1. International Refugee Law (June 2 - 6 , 2013)
Course Description: The course will provide post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, lawyers and others working with refugees or interested in refugee issues with an introduction to the international legal framework which governs the protection of refugees. Through lectures, case studies and small group discussions, course participants will learn about the basic features of international refugee law through the lens of the 1951 Refugee Convention, looking at the elements of the definition(s) of "refugee," who is excluded from the definition, the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the process by which refugee status is determined, the rights of refugees under international law, the ethical and professional obligations of those representing refugees, and other issues of refugee policy. A background in law is useful but not required.
About the Instructor: Parastou Hassouri has previously taught international refugee law at the American University of Cairo and has extensive experience in the field of international refugee law and refugee and immigrant rights. She recently spent three months on a temporary contract with the UNHCR, as a Protection Officer in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. In the fall and winter of 2012, she served as a Consultant in the Resettlement Unit of the UNHCR office in Moscow. Her previous experience also includes research on the resettlement of Iraqi refugees out of the Middle East to third countries. She has worked as a Legal Advisor and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Focal Point at Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) in Cairo. Her experience in the United States includes serving as an Attorney Advisor at the Immigration Courts of New York City and Los Angeles and working as an immigration attorney in private practice in New York City. In addition, she designed and directed the Immigrant Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, where she focused on responding to ethnic profiling and other forms of anti-immigrant backlash in the United States in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11.
The deadline for submitting course applications is :
. 15th of May
. Deadline for paying course deposit is 22nd of May, 30% of the total fees
Venue of the course: The course will take place on the Tahrir Campus in Downtown Cairo
2. From Arab Winter to Arab Spring: Refugee and Migration Movements in the Middle East and North Africa (June 9 - 13, 2013)
Course Description: Population displacement has featured prominently among the main socio-economic and political challenges faced in MENA for decades, yet it has not featured as prominently in the general study of the region. MENA hosts the world's largest and longest-standing refugee problem: that of Palestinian refugees, in addition to large numbers of displaced Sudanese, Iraqis, Somalis, and most recently and pressingly, hundreds of thousands of Syrians. This course will analyze the trends, causes, and consequences of asylum and migration for individuals and societies in MENA during the Arab "Winter," i.e. before the Arab "Spring." It will then assess the impact of the popular uprisings on displacement movements, as well as policies and practices to address them. How has the protection regime in MENA fared in the wake of the Arab Spring? Will the human rights discourse which has pervaded the uprisings in MENA have a positive effect on advocacy for refugee and migrant rights? What will the impact on the political changes be on policies towards displacement in the region? These are among the questions the course will set out to address.
About the Instructor: Shaden Khallaf is currently teaching at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) of the American University in Cairo (AUC), after having worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), where she most recently acted as policy officer and advisor on Middle Eastern humanitarian and political affairs. She has professional experience and academic background in international human rights law, globalization, democratization, and gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa. Throughout the Middle East, she has worked on refugee status determination, refugee women and child protection, monitoring detention conditions, finding durable solutions, the securitization of asylum and migration across the Mediterranean, coordination in humanitarian relief operations, post-conflict reconstruction, and human rights advocacy. Shaden also has experience analyzing political transformations, and has been focusing in 2012 on assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on asylum, protection, and human rights in the MENA region.
The deadline for submitting course applications is:
. 18th of May
. Deadline for paying course deposit is 27th of May, 30% of the total fees
Venue of the course: The course will take place at new Cairo
3. Addressing Global Trends: Psychosocial and Mental Health Interventions for Refugees Living the Urban Context (June 16 - 20, 2013)
Course Description: Global trends lead to this new course offering! UNHCR identifies 10.5 million refugees under its care; with half living in urban centers and one-third in camps. The trend for urbanization is a global and a refugee trend. Though refugees move into exile in an acute situation, UNHCR reports that almost half of the refugees under its mandate have been under its care for at least 5 years. Trends show that four-fifths of the world's refugees are hosted by developing countries. Across the world, there are also increasing numbers of countries hosting refugees in which the host populations and governments are hostile towards the refugees living there. Thereby, growing numbers of refugees are living for long periods of time in complicated urban centers. Additionally, the composition of urban refugee populations are reportedly changing from young men who may have been more capable to survive in the city to large numbers of women, children and older people. These trends challenge our capacity to offer mental health and psychosocial support to the most vulnerable.
During this course we will:
1) Explore the range of mental health and psychosocial issues for refugees living in the urban context.
2) Review the recommendations for Best Practices outlined by the Inter Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (2007) and the UNHCR policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas (2009).
3) Examine the multilayered multidisciplinary range of interventions possible and practical for the urban context and compare them to the interventions often used in camp settings.
The course will encourage active participation and sharing of experiences of its students.
About the Instructor: Nancy Baron is the Director of the Psychosocial Services and Training Institute in Cairo and Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GPSI). She received her Doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. with a concentration in Family Therapy and Counseling Psychology. Since 1989, she has provided consultation, assessment, training, program design and development, research and evaluation for UN organizations and international and local NGOs in community and family focused psychosocial, mental health and peace building initiatives for conflict and post-conflict countries. She has lived and worked with emergency affected populations in the Middle East: Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Occupied Palestinian Territories; Jordan and Lebanon; in Africa: Burundi, Egypt, Guinea Conakry, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda; in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka; in Eastern Europe: Kosovo and Albania; in South America: Colombia; and in the South Pacific: Solomon Islands.
The deadline for submitting course applications are:
. 22nd of May
. Deadline for paying course deposit is 31st of May
Venue of the course: The course will take place on the Tahrir Campus in Downtown Cairo
4. International Migration and the State System (June 23- 27, 2013)
Course Description : Several of the fundamental institutions of the modern system of states, namely sovereignty, modern territoriality, and bounded political community, exist in dynamic tension with human mobility. The course explores the international politics of migration and the effects of migration on international politics. By combining theoretical insights from International Relations and Migration Studies, it advances the thesis that human mobility has been, and continues to be, a consistent driver of change of change both in and of the international system. Migration should therefore be problematized as a major issue area for the study of international politics.
The pedagogical goal of the course will be to provide participants with the tools to analyze migration from both macro and micro levels of analysis, in order to foster theoretically-rich discussion on specific case studies. The syllabus is designed to inform discussion about the following questions:
. What was the role of human mobility in the formation of the modern international system?
. What are the effects of major changes in the balance of power on state orientations to human mobility?
. What are the structural effects of forced migration and population transfers?
. What do contemporary migration trends and state practices of migration management and border controls tell us about global socioeconomic change?
. Can the study of the contemporary politics of migration inform our discussion of future migration scenarios?
Participant will be evaluated on the basis of a short written assignment exploring the themes of one week's readings, and an in-depth case study undertaken as a group assignment. Close, critical engagement with the required readings will be crucial for fruitful discussion, and participants will be expected to arrive in Cairo having prepared in advance. Students are encouraged to challenge the thesis of the course.
The course will be structured around a series of lectures, seminars, and group work, and will include expert guest speakers and multimedia presentations. Suitable candidates for the course will have a background in International Relations, Comparative Politics, Migration and Refugee Studies, Development Studies, Sociology, Anthropology or related social science disciplines. Candidates will benefit from a basic understanding of International Relations theory.
About the Instructor: Craig D. Smith, MSc is a senior PhD Candidate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he teaches undergraduate International Relations. He is currently a research fellow at the CMRS, and has previously held a research fellowship at the Hebrew University. He earned his MSc in Global Governance and Conflict Resolution from the University of Amsterdam, and has conducted field research on irregular migration and border controls in Morocco, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine. His current field research, supported by a grant from the International Development Research Centre, focuses on the effects of climate change for forced migration in the Nile Delta.
The deadline for submitting course applications is:
. 22nd of May
. Deadline for paying course deposit is 31st of May
Venue of the course: The course will take place on the Tahrir Campus in Downtown Cairo
Eligibility for all courses
The courses are offered for graduate level students, researchers and practitioners in the field of migration and refugees. The maximum number of participants in each course is between 10 - 30.
All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a sufficient command of the English language.
There are scholarships offered only to qualified candidates from the developing countries.
The course will run with minimum of 10 participants.
Application procedure for all courses
To apply for the courses, please fill out the application in the following link:http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/Documents/Summer%202013%20Short%20Courses%20Application.doc and attach your most recent CV and send to [log in to unmask]: Att. Ms. Naseem Hashim and visit the CMRS Short Course web page for more information: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx .
Applicants may apply and be accepted to more than one course. Please do not hesitate to contact [log in to unmask] if you have any difficulty with the application process.
Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by email within a week after the deadline for submitting the application.
Course fees
The tuition fee for each course is $500 USD.
Participants are expected to pay a 30% of the total fees ($150) as a deposit Please pay attention to the deposit deadline for each course and kindly note that the deposit is non-refundable.
More information on payment method will be provided to accepted participants
Tuition fees will cover course material and 2 coffee breaks per course day.
Accommodation costs for those interested in staying at the recommended hotel will be announced shortly. Any other expenses are not included.
Number of Participants: minimum of 10
NB: Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply three weeks before the course start, in order to have enough time to obtain their visa.
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