Expert Course in Intervention with Migrants and Refugees

Workshop: Me and You. La Mirada: how do we position ourselves before immigrants and refugees?

• The influence of the other's gaze on the individual
• Migrant and refugee, visible and invisible prejudices
• Migrant and refugee, subjective and objective position. Mechanisms that make it up

Module 1: Introduction to migrations in a global world

• International migrations in the era of globalization
• The main immigration and citizenship regimes
• Main types of migrations and migrants.
• Refugees and asylum seekers
• Unaccompanied foreign minors
• Immigration policies: admission, control and relations with countries of origin and transit
• Irregular immigration
• The common immigration and asylum policy of the European Union
• Public opinion on immigration
• Citizenship and integration models

Módulo 2: La integración como meta de la intervención

• Concepts, theories and integration models
• Actors, stages and dimensions of integration
• The conditioning factors of integration
• Integration policies
• Psychosocial aspects of the integration process
• Obstacles to integration. The discrimination
• Elements to diagnose integration
• Integration in Spain

Module 3: The role of the third sector in the integration of immigrants and people seeking international protection.

• The Third Sector as a fundamental actor in the development of a country
• Legal framework of NGOs, Associations and Foundations
• Third Sector Organization: Networks, Platforms, State-level Forums
• Main financing systems of entities and their management processes
• Design, execution and monitoring of intervention programs
• Quality management systems. Evaluation and protection of damages applied to the Third Sector
• The communication. Ethical issues.
• The third sector as a key actor in the fight against discrimination, racism and xenophobia.

Module 4: Comprehensive intervention with migrants from the international protection approach

• Regulatory and legal framework:
• Brief regulatory analysis
• Legal figures of international protection.
• The analysis of the request. Administrative determination procedure.
• Migrants and their legal regime in Spain. The Immigration Law.
• Special circumstances of Ceuta and Melilla
• Models of social intervention with people seeking international protection, refugees and migrants.
• The reception and integration system
• The social insertion itinerary:
• The person as active subject of the intervention
• Contextualization and social diagnosis
• Individualized comprehensive itineraries for socio-labor insertion: Stages. Management methodology by competencies
• Language teaching within the integration itinerary of the International Protection program in Spain
• Learning the Spanish language and culture and other official languages for refugees and immigrants.
• The social participation of migrants and refugees
• Reception and integration system.
• Participation in school and educational reinforcement.
• The integration of migrant girls and boys in the educational system: participation, interculturality, and attention to diversity

Module 5: Intervention with groups in situations of special vulnerability. Trafficking, mental health, minors.

• Intervention with victims of trafficking
• Psychological intervention with people with mental health problems
• Intervention with children and adolescents
• Intervention with victims of gender violence in migration and IP contexts
• Intervention with LGTBIQ+ people in migration and IP contexts

What Are You Going To Learn?

The course consists of five thematic modules. By participating in them, you will learn:

• To reflect on the way we look at migrants and refugees, and the way we position ourselves before them.
• The situation of migrations in the global world, focusing on the main migration systems and policies with emphasis on the European Union and the case of Spain.
• The main theories, concepts and approaches around integration as the main objective of intervention with migrants and refugees.
• Integration policies and the main aspects to take into account when understanding the processes and diagnosing integration.
• The role of the third sector in the integration of migrants and refugees, emphasizing the management of social intervention programs and projects.
• To design a comprehensive intervention plan focused on people seeking international protection, refugees and migrants, that responds appropriately to the social dimension on which it focuses (education, work, participation, among others).
• To integrate into the intervention situations of special vulnerability related to human trafficking, mental health and the situation of minors.

The course is online with the exception of practices. It consists of 5 content modules and one practical module. The modules will be taught at an approximate rate of one per month depending on their content. Classes are given online synchronously through the Teams platform. These are recorded on video, which are made available to students on the virtual campus so that they can view them at their convenience if they have not been able to attend the synchronous sessions or if they want to review them.

Students will also have a detailed guide to the content and requirements of each module, as well as materials such as presentations and recommended readings. For each module, passing tests must be carried out, which will also be carried out online.

In addition to the classes, throughout the course talks or forums will be organized with relevant experts in the field of migration and refuge. In any case, it is essential that students try to maintain a continuous pace of study throughout the course to make the most of the resources offered and be able to reach the end having met all the requirements.

If the situation allows, it is planned to organize two face-to-face sessions in Madrid and on Saturdays, the dates of which will be announced throughout the course. These sessions have among their objectives that students get to know and exchange both with the teachers and with their classmates in the course. Attendance at these sessions will not be mandatory, although it is recommended.

About Streaming Classes

Streaming classes will take place two days a week, specifically on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting at 5:00 p.m. (CEST time) and ending at 7:00 p.m. It is possible that in some cases changes may occur in the set time for reasons of force majeure. In any case, changes that occur in the initial planning will be informed in time.

The day and time of the sessions will be specified in the teaching guides for each module. For those participants who cannot connect at the moment, the sessions will be recorded so that they can view them when they have time to do so. Whenever possible, efforts will be made to make the video available on the virtual campus before the next class.

In the final part of the streaming, students will have the possibility to ask the teachers of each module live in order to clarify or expand on those aspects that they consider appropriate.

Evaluation system

The evaluation system for each module is specified in the teaching guides and includes the grading percentages for each activity proposed by the teacher, as well as the evaluation criteria. To pass the program, it is a requirement to pass the modules and have carried out all the evaluable activities that have been included in the academic calendar. Participants who, for justified reasons, have had to postpone the development of some of the activities will have a recovery time before closing.

Student Support Services

The planning includes a student familiarization period, lasting one week, in which an introductory module is developed through which information about the evaluation system and the use of the virtual campus tools is made available to them. . Participants have a general guide to the program, where they can consult the academic calendar and the detailed description of the training and evaluation activities that are implemented.

Personalized Tracking of Participants

The coordination continuously monitors the performance of the participants, verifying their degree of participation in the training activities and the results they obtain in the module evaluations. Regularly update the virtual campus with news of interest to students, and send reminders of the tasks that they must carry out, according to the academic calendar. This monitoring is key to guiding participants in time management and keeping them motivated during the development of the program.

Monitoring is carried out taking into account the profile and needs of each student. The virtual campus tools are used to obtain information about the participants' access to the program content, and their involvement in the discussion or debate activities. Additionally, personalized contacts are made by email and by telephone calls to find out the causes of low student participation, if this occurs.

Consultations

Students have a series of tools that allow them to make daily queries about the content of the modules and transmit to those responsible for the program any incident that may arise in its development. The coordination keeps a record of the queries made by the participants and is committed to providing a response within a period of no more than 72 hours.

Campus Virtual

The Virtual Campus is an online teaching and interaction platform offered to teaching staff and training participants. This support facilitates rapprochement between teachers and students and allows access to academic content. It provides educational support for face-to-face sessions and a basic tool for the development of virtual sessions.