Teaching

A broad variety of teachings are given within the Masters Programmes of the Graduate Institute and through summer courses. The PSGM faculty members are also regularly invited to give courses and provide training outside the Graduate Institute.

Summer courses: Global migration, Cooperation and development

Each year, the Programme for the Study of Global Migration organizes in cooperation with the Graduate Institute’s International Programmes a Summer Course on “Global Migration, Cooperation and Development”.

The course includes lectures given by internationally-renowned professors as well as dynamic activities such as in-depth and small-group study of selected issues addressed during the lectures; visits to international organisations in Geneva (for example: IOM, UNHCR) and practical exercises, including negotiation simulations and role play.

This summer course provides an excellent opportunity for students and practitioners to further specialize and ameliorate their academic and practical competence of the field.

This year, the summer course will take place in June 2013. More info

Migration-related courses for 2012-2013

Civil Society, Diaspora and Transnationalism in South Asia – Prof. Isabelle Milbert

International Migration – Prof. Slobodan Djajic

International Migration Law  – Prof. Vincent Chetail

International Refugee Law  – Prof. Vincent Chetail

Macroeconomics of International Migration – Prof. Slobodan Djajic

Migration and Development  – Prof. Slobodan Djajic

Nationalism – Prof. Andre Liebich

Power, Poverty and Wealth in Africa, from the Slave Trades to the Present  – Prof. Gareth Austin

State Building and War-Making in the Developing World  – Prof. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Understanding Terrorism: History, Contexts and New Challenges – Prof. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

Applied Research Seminars

Since 2011, the Programme for the Study of Global Migration has been involved in the Graduate Institute’s Applied Research Seminar (ARS) which aims at providing students in the Master in Development Studies (MDEV) with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with external partners on “real world” research projects. Within that framework, the PSGM facilitates students’ contacts with international organizations and NGOs and provides research advice.

The following projects have been supported by the PSGM:

• 2013: A team of five students from the Graduate Institute – with the support of the Programme for the Study of Global Migration – will collaborate with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Cairo over a period of five months in order to evaluate their Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program for Stranded Migrants in Egypt and Libya (RAVEL). More info
   
• 2012: "A practical focus on national and regional legal mechanisms for labour migration into Europe" (provisional title). Partner institution: International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
   
• 2011: "Filling the Legal and Policy Gap for Environmental Migrants". Partner institution: Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
   
• 2011: "The right not to migrate: Job Creation as an Alternative to Emigration”. Partner institution: International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)

Courses and training outside the graduate institute

Diploma of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action (DAS)
Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH)
“Legal Framework of Humanitarian Action” – Prof. Vincent Chetail

2012-2013 International Refugee Law seminar series, University of London
“The Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law: A Systemic Perspective” – Prof. Vincent Chetail

7th Edition of the Certificate in European Law on Immigration and Asylum, Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, University of Brussels – Prof. Vincent Chetail

25th Course of International Humanitarian Law organised by the ICRC
“Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and International Humanitarian Law” – Prof. Vincent Chetail

15th Summer Course on Refugee Law, organized by the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and the UNHCR
“The International Legal Regime governing Statelessness” – Prof. Vincent Chetail

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture, University of Oxford
"State, Sovereignties and Refugees:HYPERLINK "http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/globalmigration/shared/_communIntersites/Colson%202012-poster.pdf" HYPERLINK "http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/globalmigration/shared/_communIntersites/Colson%202012-poster.pdf"A View from the Margins?" – Prof.  Alessandro Monsutti

Austrian Academy of Sciences
“The Politics of Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Rural Development, Local Participation and the Workshop Culture” – Prof. Alessandro Monsutti

University of Vienna
"Insurgents, Refugees and Humanitarian Activists: A Political Anthropology of the Afghan Crisis" – Prof. Alessandro Monsutti