Migration

Every year, millions of people undertakes the difficult travel towards a new life escaping poverty, violence and violation of rights, or simply in search of a better standard of living. It is a huge wave of human beings that involves regular migrants, illegal border-crossers, refugees and victims of human trafficking. Their experience normally inplies new and dramatic abuses, deprivation and ill-treatment when they reach their destinations. This is a new and still unexplored frontier for humanitarian aid, which has unprecedented legal, social, cultural and political implications and requires specific knowledge and skills. The course is addressed to those who want to work in preparedness and guidance for migrants, reception facilities, legal services, fight against human trafficking, repression of slavery, and protection of the most vulnerables in the migrant population.