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| 2009 Testimonials - Course 11T: Human Rights of Migrants, Migrant Workers and Their Families | |
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| What participants said about this course:
"I took the course wanting a greater understanding of the legal regimes surrounding migrants - and definitely received that. I'm impressed."
"The course met my expectations because it tackled the migrant workers' rights from the country of origin through the country of transit till the country of migration. The course also highlighted the right of the migrant workers' families, which is related to the main core of the migration movement."
"My expectations were definitely met because I received an insight into the legal debate and legal perspective concerning the topic of migrant protection. I did participate in an e-learning course for the first time. Besides the temporary technical problems, which I guess could always occur if you use this type of platform, I really liked the structure."
"It more than met my expectations. I had not really been very clearly expecting anything specific. But the course made me far more excited about the reading than I expected, especially early on. I found I was able to refer students to the texts we used right away. My trouble will be remembering the huge amount of material that I have access to, and the less huge amount that I have managed to read."
"I'd say this course met my expectations somewhat. Overview of the relevant international human rights instruments and interaction with other participants were particularly good. I think participants all over the world expressing their thoughts on a single issue using their own perspectives and experience made this course very interesting."
"It gave me a broad knowledge about migrants’ human rights, international mechanisms, and migrants’ situations in other parts of the world."
"I will be able to better assess the refugee status determination in comparison with their fear of return and the reason they fled their country of origin. I will also be able to trigger trafficked migrant workers in order to refer them to NGOs working with them."
"I think this course was an introduction to the topic. I would like to see courses on more specific issues of migrants. For instance, by region, gender or age."
"I was interested in learning about different human rights instruments and the discussion on the Palermo Protocol was particularly fascinating."
"The topics did not include enough references or examples of the Middle East migration movement and the approach of the governments that did not sign or do not obey the Convention on the rights of the migrant workers and their families."
"All materials were indeed quite important for the general understanding and even the optional [readings] couldn’t be skipped without missing something."
"I found these [readings] adequate. I also liked the idea of participants sharing relevant readings with one another as we went along in the course."
"The volume of reading varied - some weeks it was just overwhelming and I didn’t get to the optional reading where I think some issues of great interest were raised."
"I felt that sometimes the questions about the readings were too general and only provoked comments of individuals’ experiences, but not a critical analysis."
"[Participants] were highly interesting and informative. This was a very carefully selected group of participants since none of them went off-point and what they wrote/communicated was well thought out."
"Depending on the volume of reading and difficulty of the learning forum question, it was hard for the class as a whole to keep pace - which made it feel less like a dialogue. All the same, the topics were good ones and it was instructive to read the variety of responses given on the participants' different experiences and geographic locations."
"I was not always able to follow the discussion in the chat as I was often thrown out of the session and, when back, would be far behind the discussion. However, due to the availability of the transcript I could see the whole discussion afterwards."
"The nature and quality of the contributions varied – some participants took more normative positions and reflected on the readings, others grounded their viewpoints in practical examples, while others commented on the points already made. All these contributions proved complementary and created a rich learning environment."
"These [discussion forums] were highly informative and I was proud to be part of the group since I felt that we became a community of learning."
"The only aspect I would personally have increased was the student-to-student chat facility, which could have been used a bit more even without the facilitators."
"I found [the assignments] were a good way of summarizing things learnt, making them my own, and applying them to the concept being discussed."
"[The instructor] has a very thorough grounding of the subject, she is clear and methodical – and she enjoys teaching. Well done!"
"I am not too much of a computer person but the course organizers managed to make the course accessible to me."
"In my future project related to legal protection for children's rights in Vietnam, I will ensure the linkages with the social welfare counterparts in also focusing on trafficking and child migrant workers, as per child labour."
"I have been persuaded to interview pro-migration as well as pro-refugee advocates. I am doing this with a former Masters students who completed her dissertation on migrants’ and refugees’ rights in the new world order. This person is now collaborating with me, and this perhaps is a direction I would otherwise (without this HREA course) not have gone in."
"IOM Moldova plans to soon organize soon a retreat on Migrant’s Rights for the Donor Community in Moldova and UN Agencies. My experience acquired during this course will certainly have an important influence in implementing this idea."
"I believe this course will help me contribute in more meaningful ways to policy discussions of all sorts regarding migration."
"I intend to organize trainings and deliver workshops on the rights of migrants."
"I might work with the Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers in the near future, in which case my participation in this course would prove very useful from a normative point of view."
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