EDUC blended intensive program 2024
Refugee Integration? Critical reflections on history and the present
Only for students from one of the following partner universities within the alliance European Digital UniverCity (EDUC):
Czech Republic: Masaryk University Brno
France: University of Rennes 1 / University Paris-Nanterre
Germany: University of Potsdam
Hungary: University of Pécs
Italy: University of Cagliari
Norway: University of South-Eastern Norway
Spain: Jaume I University
This intensive course delves into the global history of processes of refuge-seeking: it explores the many challenges that refugees and migrants face and the opportunities they create in receiving countries. It engages the manifold ways in which citizens have responded to migrants and refugees over time – from the Huguenots’ arrival in Brandenburg-Prussia in 1685 to the present – and in various places, including France, Australia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Germany. The course also examines the responses and visions of migrants and refugees themselves.
The course brings together 30 students from eight European universities through the European Digital UniverCity alliance (EDUC), for online learning (starting Mid-April, 2024) followed by a week together in Potsdam June 24-29, 2024. In Potsdam students will meet with local decision-makers, civil society and church representatives, and migrants and refugees to learn first-hand about practices and issues relating to migration and integration.
To prepare for this, students will be introduced to theories around integration and will then engage with historic and contemporary case studies that highlight particular issues such as culture, religion, racism, education, and labour in relation to assimilationism and multiculturalism.
Overall, the aim of this course is to provide students with the theoretical and conceptual language to make sense of historical processes of refuge-seeking and integration as well as enabling a lively exchange between student perspectives and practitioners’ insights on processes of integration in the city of Potsdam.
- Timeframe:
Online program: via Zoom
- introductory session: April 17, 2024, 8:30- 10:00 a.m.
- session "Therories of Integration": June 19, 2024, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
- closing session: July 3, 2024, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (with final presentations)
Onsite program: June 24-29, 2024
- Location: Online | Universität Potsdam, Campus Neues Palais
- Language: English
- Targetgroup: Upper level BA/MA students of history, political sciences, cultural sciences, law & philosophy
- Workload: 125 hours, equivalent to 5 ECTS
If you have any questions about the program, please contact us via mail.
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