Digitale Lehre
Dear students,

For the summer semester 2020, the course ´Human rights and forced migration´ is available exclusively in the form of "Digital course".

This means that:

All the students have to choose a topic from the syllabus -about four students for each topic. Every week the group of the students responsible for the particular topic has to prepare a PowerPoint presentation and send it to me by Tuesday 13.00 o´clock.

Plan A: If TU Darmstadt provides technical equipment, digital meetings will take place according to the dates and time announced at tucan. In these terms, about four students will be responsible every week to make a presentation of each section of the syllabus sharing at the same time their PowerPoint presentation. These presentations will be online using ZOOM. In this case the classes will be interactive. After the presentation of the group, we will be all able to pose questions and to discuss further each topic.

Plan B: If TU Darmstadt does not provide technical equipment, there will be no interactive classes. In this case, the group responsible for the presentation of the week has to send me their PowerPoint presentation on Tuesdays (see above) via email. The rest of the students have to answer some questions, every week, based on the syllabus; they have to send me their answers via email by Wednesday at 09.00 o´clock am and I will send them my comments on Thursdays.

Should you have further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me via email (at kolliniati@pg.tu-darmstadt.de).

Kind regards,

Artemis
April 15, 2020

 

Official Course Description
The idea of human rights, or the status of refugee or asylum seeker can effectively protect human beings who are forced to flee their countries? This course focuses on forced migration and consists of four main sections. The first section deals with the legal framework for refugee protection and in particular with the text of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. The second section explores whether refugees are protected effectively from human rights institutions. The third section articulates questions about open borders, forced migration and the sovereignty of the state. In these terms, the open borders question will be discussed using different theoretical approaches. The fourth section focuses on Europe and refugees, the case of Greece and the Dublin Regulation.

Semester: Verão 2020