MOOC Mass Migration and Human Rights
for the new Massive Open Online Course on ‘Mass Migration and Human Rights – Legal and Ethical Dilemmas. The course starts on 18 September 2017.
This course was developed in cooperation between the Association of Human Rights Institutes () and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, with contributions from Antoine Buyse (director Netherlands Institute of Human Rights - SIM) and many other international scholars.
A course for all, on Master’s level, a course that’s absolutely free, web based and available for completion on your own PC, a course that takes max two hours of your time weekly, for four weeks, highly relevant topic: Mass Migration and Human Rights – Legal and ethical dilemmas, world class scholars, short lectures, 4 different modules, videos and texts, all in English.
A four module course
The first module presents the essential questions:
- What are the core principles of international refugee law?
- What is the relationship between human rights and ethics?
- What are the core dilemmas of European asylum law and policies?
The second module deals with Human rights and root causes of mass migration. In this module, one examines these causes with particular emphasis on North Africa and the Middle East, in particular Syria and Lebanon. The third module deals with the questions of Access to asylum - in theory and practice. The fourth takes into consideration the long term consequences and challenges of integration.
Unique perspectives
The MOOC takes the perspective of migrant children as the core approach to talk about the issue of mass migration and human rights. The awarded documentary filmmaker, Karoline Frogner contributes on a pro bono basis, with some film sequences where children in Norwegian reception centres for asylum seekers share their histories. And further, the MOOC presents sequences from the prize-winning documentary «69 minutes of 86 Days» by Egil Håskjold Larsen.