Center for Forced Migration Studies’ Summer Institute:
“Settling Resettlement”
July 8th-14th, 2012
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CFMS Summer Institute is a six-day, non-degree earning seminar intended for researchers, policy makers, academics and practitioners working in issues of forced migration, resettlement and humanitarian assistance both within the United States and abroad. Through lectures, focused discussions, workshops and simulation exercises, the Institute, held at Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston, IL, provides a forum to exchange ideas, build relationships, develop new approaches and policy recommendations and learn about new developments in the field. Past participants have included government officials, non-governmental organization personnel, university faculty and graduate students (select advanced undergraduate students may seek permission to attend).
Applicants must have good to excellent English speaking and reading skills. No translation services are available.
Click here to read the full schedule for the 2012 Summer Institute. To view the schedule of events and faculty bio’s from the 2011 Institute click here.
Institute Fees:
Regular Registration - $1,100 (includes course and some meals)
Group Rate - $1,100 for first group member, $900 for each additional group member
**Scholarships and partial tuition assistance is available** Please contact cfms@northwestern.edu for more information.
Registration Deadlines:
Visa Applicants: Contact the US embassy nearest you for visa application deadlines
Non-Visa Applicants: June 30th, 2012
Do you think you might need a visa? Click here to find out.
Accommodation:
The Institute will be held on the Northwestern University Campus in Evanston, IL. Rooms will be available in the Northwestern dormitories for approximately $250/week. A limited number of homestays are also available upon request. There are also several hotels in Evanston and the surrounding area. Please direct accommodation related questions to cfms@northwestern.edu.
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Summer Institute Director:
Galya Ruffer – CFMS Founding Director
2012 Summer Institute Faculty:
Barbara Harrell-Bond, University of Oxford
Charles Gomes, Fundacao Casa De Rui Barbosa
Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR
Minal Giri, M.D., Melrose Park Pediatrics
Edwin Silvermann, Illinois Bureau of Refugee & Immigrant Services
Eric Schwarts, University of Minnesota
Michael Kagan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sanja Bebic, Center for Applied Linguistics
Uzoamaka Nzelibe, Northwestern University School of Law
Barbara Day, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
Jessica Darrow, University of Chicago
Andrew Brown, Northwestern University
Mariam Aziz, Cardozo Law School
Parchi Murarka, Northwestern University
Why Focus on Resettlement?
Resettlement has long been one of the durable solutions for refugees. While there have been large-scale resettlements to the US and Northern States over the past decades, most refugees are hosted and will remain in the poorest countries of the world; countries that lack the capacity or will to absorb refugees, do not have an established asylum system, and where refugees do not have access to most of the rights and protection mechanisms enshrined in international refugee and human rights laws.
Currently, less than .01% of the world’s refugees are resettled to countries where these rights are respected. Although states such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some European countries continue to admit refugees according to annual quotas dictated by formalized resettlement (the US having the most generous admissions ceilings of 70-80,000 annually in recent years), southern countries are still host to a far larger number of refugees.
In order to address the concerns of resettlement we need better knowledge and awareness of the situation in local contexts. For example, how does protracted displacement alter social support networks, essential for human survival? How do differences in language, skin color, religion, education between refugees and host country natives create barriers; especially for vulnerable populations such as unaccompanied minors, elderly, physically and mentally disabled, traumatized and detained refugees? Within the theme of ‘settling’ resettlement, similar issues also require our attention as they apply to refugees’ lives in the countries to which they have been resettled.
The faculty of the CFMS Summer Institute is a dynamic collection of academics and professionals from a number of disciplines and practices including anthropology, political science, law, psychology, sociology and social policy. This year’s instructors include world-renowned faculty from Northwestern University, leaders and experts in the field from other institutions, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. |
