This unit will introduce students to current issues about forced migration and human rights. Topics to be discussed include: Causes of forced migration and human rights abuse, including development induced displacement, environmental degradation, decolonisation, conflict and war, globalisation of market economies, including trafficking in humans. Legal categories and consequences: refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, smuggled migrants, victims of torture, stateless people.The overlap between international human rights law, refugee law and international migration law. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Susan Kneebone
Prerequisites: LAW7026 Overview of international human rights law
