Offered
Not offered in 2008
Synopsis
This unit will introduce students to current issues about forced migration and human rights. Topics to be discussed include:
- Causes of forced migration and human rights abuse, including development induced displacement, environmental degradation, decolonisation, conflict and war, globalisation of market economies, including trafficking in humans.
- Legal categories and consequences: refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, smuggled migrants, victims of torture, stateless people. *The overlap between international human rights law, refugee law and international migration law.
Objectives
A student who has completed this unit will have the following outcomes:
- An understanding of the causes of forced migration and the links with human rights abuse.
- Knowledge about the legal categories of forced migrants.
- Knowledge of the significance and consequences of attributing legal status to the different categories of forced migrants.
- The ability to critically evaluate the role of law in defining the rights of forced migrants.
- Knowledge about the institutional arrangements for protecting the rights of the different categories of forced migrants.
- The ability to critically evaluate the role of institutions in providing protection and solutions to forced migrants.
- Knowledge about the various options and solutions for dealing with forced migration, and the ability to critically evaluate them.
- Enhanced oral and written communication skills, including the ability to conduct research and to devise a research project.
Assessment
Research paper (3,750 words): 50%
Take home examination (3,750 words): 50%
or
Research paper (7,500 words): 100%
Contact hours
Semi-intensive
Prerequisites
LAW026 Overview of international human rights law