After a short explanation of the foundations of international protection in the Geneva Convention, the session will focus on the Common European Asylum System and the operation of the Dublin system in the European countries. Current trends in international protection and the application of the Dublin system in the V4 countries will be discussed. The second half of the session will be dedicated to the UNHCR mandate in the field of international protection. Finally, the legal framework of protecting people against statelessness will be introduced, again showing also the UNHCR mandate in this field. A UNHCR representative will be present to provide insight into the activities of UNHCR in the V4 region.

Suggested reading:

Statelessness
Please have a look at UNHCR website dedicated to statelessness: 
- please have a look at the video at this webpage. www.unhcr.org/statelessness:
Suggested reading for this topic is  Helping the World's Stateless People available at http://www.refworld.org/docid/4e55e7dd2.html  


Refugee Status
Regarding the status of refugee, please read Article 1 of the Refugee convention available here: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3be01b964.html - Article 1 can be found on pp. 152-156.

Regarding EU and its asylum system, please have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxiEVYFo64 and read the Reform of the Dublin System, available at https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/background-information/docs/20160504/the_reform_of_the_dublin_system_en.pdf and
this Fact-sheet: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/e-library/docs/ceas-fact-sheets/ceas_factsheet_en.pdf
 

Questions for those who missed the class:

read stories in the Asylum Presentations (case 1, 2, 3) and try to figure out whether the person is a refugee and argue why
read the presentation and fact sheet in the materials above and describe very shortly the essence of the Dublin System in EU