Global Refugee Studies - Copenhagen
Global Refugee Studies, a specialization program of Development and International Relations, focuses on forced migration in a broader context. It relates to policies by western governments of addressing problems of refugees and forced migrants from many areas of the world. Development aid is increasingly directed at initiatives related to refugees. The idea is that development aid should be directed to the countries and regions that ‘generate’ migrants and refugees in order to create new circumstances to ensure that refugees and forced migrants remain in the close neighbourhood either in the countries of origin or the surrounding countries. There is a serious lack of knowledge about the impact of this and many other initiatives on the actual situation of global, regional and local refugees.
The Global Refugee Studies programme seeks to enable its graduates to achieve professional standards in the complex and varied nature of the causes and implications of refugee and displacement/migration issues in a local, national and global context. This is done by developing the critical, analytical and methodological capacities of students, who apply their understanding of refugees, displacement, migration to problem-causes and problem-solving strategies and policy-making in a developmental and international context. The Global Refugee Studies Specialization Programme focuses on the processes leading to displacement and the policies at various socio-spatial levels that lead to forced migration.
The purpose of this program is to offer a two-year full-time international MA-study degree program in Development and international Relations, Global Refugee Studies. The programme will be taught in English so as to prepare graduates for international careers as well as to attract foreign students from the EU and abroad. The aim is to provide an interdisciplinary insight in the social science study of refugees in a development and international relations perspective.
Global Refugee Studies is offered at Aalborg University’s Copenhagen Campus. You can read more about the programme in this brochure
