Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Freedom of Movement, Refugees, Traffickers, and Smugglers
This online course examined the human right to leave one’s country, finding it to be both incomplete as well as theoretical for those fleeing the developing world. It examined the Refugee Convention, highlighting its shortcomings. It examined the ways in which Western states have, in effect, exported their frontiers to inside the territories of developing states. It examined the regimes governing trafficking and smuggling, highlighting their shortcomings in relation to migrant victims.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Ms Sian Lewis-Anthony
Senior Lecturer in Law
The University of Kent
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the role(s) that borders have in the generation of modern forms and means of flight
- Evaluate some of the shortcomings of the Refugee Convention 1951
- Explore the right to freedom of movement in the context of modern migration patterns
- Evaluate the UN anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking regimes and their impact on migrants and migration
Syllabus
- Border controls and freedom of movement
- De-territorialisation of border controls
- Asylum seekers and refugees
- Human trafficking and smuggling of persons
Issued on 3rd October 2025
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