Migration and Refugee Studies
Summer Short Courses May 22 – June 9, 2016
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering the following three short courses during the month of May and June 2016:
1. Mobilities and the Gendered Subject (May 22 - 26, 2016)
2. The Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean Space: Context, Policies, and Human Consequences (May 29 – June 2, 2016)
3. Palestinian Refugees Issues (June 5 - 9, 2016)
1. Eligibility for all courses:
Requirements: These courses are offered for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers as well as practitioners working with migrants and refugees. A minimum knowledge of displacement and migration terminologies and context is a requirement for participation in any of the three courses.
All courses are conducted in English and no translation facilities are provided. Participants should have a very good command of the English language. Each course will run from 9 am till 5pm for five days.
Interested applicants can apply for one course or for all the three courses.
Number of Participants: minimum of 12 in each course
NB: Non- Egyptian applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early in order to have enough time to obtain their visa.
2. Dates and Location: CMRS courses will take place between Sunday 22nd of May and 9th of June at the AUC Tahrir Campus in Downtown Cairo. The exact location and room numbers will be forwarded to accepted participants before the start of the courses.
3. Courses’ Descriptions
3.1 Mobilities and the Gendered Subject (May 22 - 26, 2016)
Taking the contemporary migration ‘crisis’ as a starting point, this short course explores ways in which the mobile gendered subject is being made visible as an object of knowledge. It provides a critical overview of recent social science debates on the gender-migration nexus with a focus on trafficking, labor, humanitarianism and the social. Given the intensity of contemporary mobilities, expulsions, displacements, through lectures, case studies and discussions, this seminar raises questions concerning the costs, effects and possibilities of particular knowledge producing strategies.
About the Instructor: Martina Rieker is the Director of the Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University in Cairo. She regularly teaches graduate seminars on Gender and Migration. She is the co-founder and co-ordinator of the Shehr Comparative Urban Landscapes Network. Her research interests encompass gender, mobilities, political economy, critical geographies, methodologies and urbanism.
3.2 The Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean Space: Context, Policies, and Human Consequences (May 29 – June 2 , 2016)
The course analyzes the current migration crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean region both as the expression of the political turmoil affecting the region and as the result of the policies deployed by states to manage migration across the geopolitical fault-line the Mediterranean has become. As such the course situates the current volatile migration patterns within the regional political context, and addresses the policy response to them, seeking to enable students to understand their rationale and effectiveness. A particular attention will be granted to the policies of bordering and (non) assistance across the sea and their consequences for the well-being of migrants. The course is useful for those working in international, national, and non-governmental organizations that engage with migration and asylum issues, particularly those working in the Euro-Mediterranean region, and to post-graduate students in migration and refugee studies, Middle East and Euro-Mediterranean studies, as well as in related fields.
Through lectures, case studies, and discussions, this one-week intensive course provides a rigorous critical overview of the current migration and refugee crisis and its short and long-term regional implications. Questions explored include: What are the political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural drivers of the current migration? Issues considered include conflict, governance, human rights, underdevelopment, inequality, demography, labor markets, climate change, desertification, drought, religious and ethnic discrimination, and xenophobia. What are the projected trends in these areas? What is the extent of the phenomenon in terms of the number of people seeking to cross the sea and of those dying in the process? How have border and rescue policies at the sea evolved over the course of the last two years and how have they affected the well-being of the migrants? To what extent such policies are bound together with the corresponding policies on land by the EU's migration regime? How effective are the policies in the origin, transit and destination countries, and to what extent do they need to be rethought? What are the short and long terms implications of the ongoing crisis? These questions are explored through regional case studies, including migration from Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen; migration from the Horn of Africa and the Sahel transiting through North Africa and the Middle East towards Europe; intersection with ongoing migration from the Balkans and Eastern Europe; and responses in transit and destination states in North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
About the Instructors:
Ibrahim Awad is Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo. He has worked for the League of Arab States, the United Nations, and the International Labour Organization, holding positions of Secretary of the Commission, UN-ESCWA; Director, ILO Sub-regional Office for North Africa; and Director, ILO International Migration Programme. Dr Awad is a political scientist and political economist and his research interests and publications encompass international migration, employment, human and labour rights, development, politics and political transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, international relations, global governance and European integration.
Charles Heller is a visiting postdoc Research Fellow at the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University, Cairo and the Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo, with the support of the Swiss National Fund (SNF). Prior to this, he completed a Ph.D. in 2015 in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he continues to be affiliated as a Research Fellow. Together with Lorenzo Pezzani, since 2011, he co-founded the WatchTheMed platform and has been working on Forensic Oceanography, a project that critically investigates the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea.
3.3 Palestinian Refugees (June 5 - 9, 2016)
The Palestinian refugee problem is perhaps the most sensitive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and one of the most vexing continuing challenges to international refugee policy. This inter-disciplinary course will be an opportunity for students to engage directly with the major practical and theoretical issues connected with Palestinian refugees, critically assessing the historical, political, legal and ideological forces that have shaped their turbulent circumstances. The course will consider perspectives from both Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints, including fields of history, law, and the social sciences, and will analyze a number of primary texts.
About the Instructor: Ardi Imseis, Department of Politics and International Studies, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (PhD Candidate). Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Law, American University of Cairo (2015-2016). Between 2002 and 2014, Ardi served in senior policy and legal capacities with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (HQ Gaza, 2002-2007; West Bank Field Office, 2007-2014). Ardi’s principal areas of practice and research interest are in public international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Ardi is former Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellow. He is admitted to the practice of law in Canada (Ontario 2001; Alberta 2010) and has served as Senior Legal Counsel to the Chief Justice of Alberta. He holds an LL.M. (Columbia), an LL.B. (Dalhousie), and a B.A. (Hons.) (Toronto).
Deadlines for submitting application for all courses are:
• 17th of April, 2016
• Deadline for paying course deposit (30% of the course’s fee- 150$) is 22 April, 2016
Application Information:
To apply for the courses:
1. Fill out the application form. The form is available on CMRS website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx
2. Send the application form to [log in to unmask] with your most recent C.V; Att. Ms. Naseem Hashim
Applicants may apply to and be accepted in 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.
Fees and Scholarship:
The fee for each course is $ 500. Participants are expected to pay a 30% of the total fees ($150) as a deposit. Please pay attention to the deposit deadline 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 two coffee breaks per course day. All participants are kindly requested to secure their visa and organise and cover expenses for their travel to and from Egypt, as well as their accommodation and local transportation in Egypt.
Independent researchers and students can apply for a limited number of available scholarships. Scholarships cover only tuition cost; those accepted for a scholarship must be able to finance their travel to and accommodation in Cairo. Scholarships are not intended for participants who can be funded by their own institutions.
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