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| Home | Curriculum development commenced in 1993 in the Department of Government and Public Administration. The first under-graduate course “Human Rights and Refugee Problems” was taught in 1994 and was attended by 150 students of the School of Social, Cultural and Development Studies. The course has been taught every year since then and has significantly contributed a collection of teaching materials on human rights and the humanitarian regime. In 1996 three other courses were developed. The following are the total number of courses available to undergraduate students. GPA 217: International Migration Emerging patterns of international migration and refugee flows; the impact of immigration on the host country (using Kenyan and Tanzania examples); examination of post-World War II emigrations from Europe and the recent rise of emigration from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to North America and Western Europe.
GPA 413: Refugees in the Context of Political Theory The course uses the philosophical theory of obligation to examine three different types of obligation that countries assume towards refugees: Obligations to refugees according to the ideologically opposing camps; humanitarian obligations of a moral type; and legal obligations assumed under international conventions.
GPA 420: Refugees in Global Transformation: Theories of international migration with particular reference to the sociology of refugee generating situations in a global context of conflict; conditions under which the UN Convention on Refugees was adopted; sociological and Psychological aspects of the refugee experience, including displacements, copying mechanisms, re-settlements and repatriation; evolution of Kenya’s refugee policy from colonial period to the present; and current refugee crises in the Third World.
GPA 421: Human Rights and Refugee Problems in Africa The cause and scope of the refugee problems and human rights abuses in the world; international efforts to alleviate the problems: Human Rights Movement(s) and UNHCR; a review of statutes and judicial opinions regarding displaced persons and human rights especially in Africa; refugee law; the management of refugee aid and strategies for enhancing state capacity to adequately handle massive human migrations; rights of women, children and disabled. |
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