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Fortress Europe: human rights violations against migrants and refugees at Europe's borders.

Fortress Europe: human rights violations against migrants and refugees at Europe's borders.

Understanding forced displacement and migration from a human rights perspective.
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Description

Every year, thousands of migrants try to reach Europe. What is happening, from a humanitarian point of view, in the territories surrounding European borders? In this learning opportunity, you will explore and understand different borderland territories and the human rights violations that are taking place within them. Through the voice and experiences of experts, as well as social and political activists, you will learn about economic and geopolitical interests, European policies and initiatives of collective resistance against human rights violations against migrants and refugees.

Study format
Blended
Application period
12 March – 30 April 2024
Study period
26 June – 15 July 2024
Credits
3 ECTS
Pace
25%
Hosting university
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Learning outcomes

Understand human rights for refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and internally displaced people.

To acquire a complex understanding of human rights with emphasis on migrants and asylum seekers.

ESCO SKILLS

Show empathy

Humanitarian perspective and advocacy.

To learn how to analyse different humanitarian situations in the European borders from a human rights and gender perspective.

ESCO SKILLS

Respect cultural preferencesDemonstrate intercultural competence

Communication skills to create awareness-raising campaings.

To acquire the bases to be able to design a proposal for a campaign or awareness-raising action about the rights of migrants and refugees.

ESCO SKILLS

Raise awareness on local community's prioritiesListening and asking questions

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Teamwork
Non-verbal communication skills
Conflict resolution
Empathy
Verbal Communication skills
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Intra-personal skills

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Exercise self-reflection
Planning
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Resilient communities

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Universal access to services
Quality of life in cities and communities
Resource-efficient systems
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Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

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Social innovation
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Information

In a context of global inequalities, armed conflicts, hate speech, and xenophobia, human rights violations against migrants, especially women, children, and LGBTQI+ individuals, are alarming. These issues are more evident in territories around European borders, currently considered zones of non-law. The social narrative on refugees and migration is influenced by media and partial readings, undermining the fight for their rights. Exclusion, xenophobia, and criminalization in fortified Europe make migrants and racialized individuals more vulnerable.

Therefore, this course is a strategic opportunity for future professionals to be critical citizens addressing human rights violations and rising racist and xenophobic discourses.

This course aims to strengthen university's community role in generating, appropriating, and promoting knowledge and critical analysis. It provides tools for a resounding, sustained, and efficient response to deactivate racist and xenophobic attitudes and discourses and defend the rights of refugees and migrants, especially women, children, and LGBTQI+ individuals.

Hosting university

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Associated Partner

Fundació Autònoma Solidària