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Human Rights-Migration and Refugee Crisis Housing Approaches

Code 16739
Year 1
Semester L0
ECTS Credits 2
Workload O (42H)/OT(2H)/PL(2H)/S(2H)/TC(2H)/T(2H)/TP(4H)
Scientific area Social Sciences
Entry requirements N/A
Learning outcomes Development of skills in the following areas and topics: International legal and political frameworks; driving forces to people’s displacements- economic, cultural, religious and political issues; forced displacement types, causes, impacts; minorities and co-related vulnerabilities; conflicts management and tools for social integration of external and internal displaced persons in local communities; mitigation strategies and local empowerment processes; the dialectic refugee’s integration in the old city versus refugee camps; implementation and appropriation of provisional shelters, Humanitarian Construction; Cultural Sustainability in Emergency Response
Syllabus International legal and political frameworks;
Driving forces behind the movement of people - economic, cultural, religious and political issues;
Types of forced displacement, causes, impacts;
Minorities and co-related vulnerabilities;
Conflict management and instruments for the social integration of external and internal displaced persons into local communities;
Mitigation strategies and local empowerment processes;
Integration of refugees in the old city versus refugee camps;
Implementation and appropriation of temporary shelters, Humanitarian Construction;
Cultural Sustainability in Emergency Response
Main Bibliography Cholewinski, Ryszard, Paul De Guchteneire, and Antoine Pécoud, eds. Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Mitsilegas, V. (2014). The criminalisation of migration in Europe: challenges for human rights and the rule of law. Springer.

Betts, Alexander, Gil Loescher, and James Milner. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The politics and practice of refugee protection. Routledge, 2013.

Seethaler-Wari, Shahd. "Urban planning for the integration of refugees: The importance of local factors." Urban Planning 3.4 (2018): 141-155.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2024-10-28

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