Certificate in International Migration Studies - An Informational Webinar

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The Certificate in International Migration Studies prepares you with expertise in global migration trends, national and local security conditions, and social issues driving contemporary immigration policy and enforcement. Led by distinguished faculty from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown University Law Center, our program examines the intricacies of international migration through a multidisciplinary lens.

You’ll study the economic, social, cultural, ethical, security, and policy ramifications of international movements of people while examining current trends and challenges. Upon completing the program, you’ll have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics behind international migration, as well as the advanced skills needed to develop improved policies and programs for future generations.

Upon successful completion of the certificate, you’ll be able to:

Analyze how government laws and policies influence migration patterns
Develop solutions to problems concerning unauthorized, legal, and forced migration
Perform research to understand international migration challenges
Apply critical information to create lasting policies and practices
Recommend policy and practice changes based on trends in international migration

The curriculum includes:

XCPD-708 - Refugees and Displaced Persons
Refugees and Displaced Persons focuses on international and domestic law, legal cases and policies designed to protect and assist people who have been forced to flee because of persecution, conflict and other life threatening events. It examines the causes of such flight as well as its consequences. Further discussed are the solutions to forced migration, including return, local integration and resettlement in a new community. The course explores such issues as the nexus between forced and voluntary migration, the transition from relief to development, and the intersection between refugee protection and security issues. It gives particular attention to asylum cases and standards for legal and physical protection of refugees.

XCPD-703 - Newcomers to Citizens: Immigrant Integration
With a record 200 million people living outside their country of birth, immigration is a global phenomenon with profound demographic, economic, social, and political implications for both sending and receiving countries. The debate over immigration law and policy has become increasingly volatile and, in some instances, characterized by misinformation, hate, and xenophobia. Beyond the politics of immigration, genuine challenges to immigrant integration abound. Successful integration of immigrants is critical to the long-term prosperity of host countries that rely on immigrants as workers, consumers, taxpayers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in light of their aging native-born populations and lower birth rates. In this course we will explore integration law, policies, judicial cases and practices in both traditional immigrant-receiving countries--such as the United States and Canada and new countries of permanent immigration such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom. We will raise questions about traditional understandings of nationality, loyalty, place and identity. We will also discuss citizenship laws, models of multicultural citizenship, as well as transnationalism and post-nationalism, paradigms that challenge an integrationist reading of migration.

XCPD-715 - Environmental Displacement and Migration
This course will begin with an examination of environmental risk due to physical processes and then review the state of theoretical knowledge about patterns of migration. The course will then look at the socio-economic, political, security, and demographic factors that affect environmental displacement and migration as well as the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics.



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