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Learning Objectives:

The course is organized into three integrated modules which will cover: 1) The Constitutional rights of asylum seekers and refugees, in the context of Italian policies on entry and hospitality; 2) Access to the asylum procedure and safeguards for unaccompanied children in a selected number of States; immigrant’s social rights from a comparative perspective; 3) The supranational and constitutional system of human rights protection towards ethnic and racial minorities with a key focus on the status of minority women in their exercise of cultural and identity rights.

The course is designed to deepen the protection of immigrant rights in the context of constitutional law, within the Italian context and in light of the comparative perspective, and to provide the students with specific knowledge of national policies on asylum seekers. Furthermore, the course will provide students with legal reasoning while working on case law analysis on the protection of social rights, especially in cases revolving around the rights to education and healthcare. 

Students will be required to actively engage in the investigation of the relevant case law, the law, policies, relevant documents, and key academic texts to acquire language skills and critical awareness of the main existing challenges.

Expected learning outcomes:

To complete the course, students are expected to:

1. prove their knowledge and awareness of the constitutional rights of migrants at the constitutional level;
2. demonstrate to have understood the relevant constitutional rights of migrants from the comparative perspective;
3. understand the specifics of minority rights and minority women’s status in light of the examined constitutional and supranational dimensions jointly examined with the relevant case law;
4. appreciate and critically evaluate the differences among asylum  policies;
5. show awareness of the rights of migrants and understand their obstacles in exercising selected fundamental rights;  
6. apply the knowledge acquired to specific factual circumstances;
7. acquire communication skills.

Assessment:

The course is structured into three separate but integrated modules. Students, therefore, will be evaluated on each part of the program.

At the end of the three modules, students will take a written exam consisting of multiple-choice questions and open questions.