COURSE UNIT TITLE

: IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMH 5112 IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IKBAL SIBEL SAFI

Offered to

Public Law

Course Objective

When the failure of the state on the obligation to protect the citizens occurs, there
is a need of international protection. The object of course is to clarify the concepts
of migration, asylum-seekers and refugees. Then instruct about their rights and
international obligations concerning the protection of such person.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain the concept of immigration and refugee law. The history of the International Protection, The positive and negative protection responsibility of States, citizenship, the alienage condition.
2   To interpret the rules of immigration and refugee law, conditional refugee, refugee status, temporary protection, integration.
3   To reveal the connection to other legal rules of immigration and refugee law, understanding the 1951 Geneva Convention, 6458 numbered Foreigners and International Protection,
4   To be dominated by the legislation on the subject of migration and refugees, to understand the Turkish legislation on Refugee Law, the termination reasons of refugee status, the exclusion reasond of refugee status.
5   Having knowledge about the international documents for migration and refugees.
6   State's failure or unwillingness to protect its citizen, Reasons of persectuion, race, nationality, religion, membership to a particular social group, political opinions

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Aims and general information about the content of the course. To give information about the plan and processing method of the course. To recommend the students the written sources on processing the course.
2 Immigration and refugee law in connection with the basic concepts and the various branches of law.
3 The origins and historical development of migration. The comparative analysis of case studies, legal prescriptions on refugee status determination.
4 Concepts and principles of the international conventions. 1951 Geneva Convention, 1967 New York Protocol, definition of refugee status and its limitations.
5 Determination of refugee status. Failure of state protection and the citizenship.
6 Refugee, conditional refugee, temporary protection, the state protection, positive and negative protection, international protection.
7 Asylum procedure, alienage condition, well-founded fear of persecution, religion, nation, race, political opinion, particular social group criteria and the inconsistencies on jurisprudence.
8 Midterm exam.
9 Rights and freedoms of refugees and asylum seekers, right to work .
10 The Termination of refugee status and the exclusion clauses on the refugee status.Temporary protection and the integration, voluntary repatriation, non-refoulement.
11 Assessment of current developments about immigration and refugees in Turkish law and a legal perpective of on 6458 numbered Turkish Foreigners and International Protection Law. immigration policy in Türkiye.
12 Analsing the the Turkish law on migration and refugees. The jurisprudence on cases and judicial procedure.
13 Examination of the rule of the court, case-law, jurisprudence.
14 General assessment on granting the refugee condition, comparative analysis on granting refugee status and the case law.

Recomended or Required Reading

ODMAN, M. Tevfik: Mülteci Hukuku, Ankara 1995.
ÇIÇEKLI, Bülent: Uluslararası Hukukta Mülteciler ve Sığınmacılar, Ankara 2009.
ÖZKAN, Işıl: Göç, Iltica ve Sığınma Hukuku, Ankara 2013.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

lecturing and seminars

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ugur3580@hotmail.com

Office Hours

monday 14:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 45 45
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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