Students will be required to read a preparatory material. It will concern procedure used for refugee status determination and will be based on UNHCR Handbook on Procedures and contain a few questions to discuss.

In the first part of the lesson, these questions will be discussed in groups with other students. Students will then write down questions which were most disputable in the group.
Thereafter a lecture will be given, providing for a broader context - it will focus on he foundations of international protection in the Geneva Convention, 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 touched upon.

Finally, the third part of the lesson students will role-play in a case-study concerning an asylum case (this case-study will be provided at the leson).

Obligatory Reading: UNHCR Handbook on Procedures available here: http://www.unhcr.org/publications/legal/3d58e13b4/handbook-procedures-criteria-determining-refugee-status-under-1951-convention.html paras: 32-110, 144-149, 164-166.
and Qualification for international protection: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/103656dd-2027-11e8-ac73-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-76369136
Questions to be answered (and submitted in a written form by Sunday before the lesson):
In your country, how many people seek asylum? (try to find national statistics, or information about approximate number of asylum-seekers) Which are the most common countries of origin?
Try to find out, from which of these countries people may fear persecution or other serious harm (e. g. risk of torture, risk of harm due to armed conflict, death penalty)?
Do you think that a person who was never targetted personally, but provides for many examples of other people in a similar position who were tortured, should be granted international protection?
Does a person have to be persecuted by state authorities in order to be granted a refugee status?
In case a person cannot return to his home part of a country, is he or she required by asylum law to seek refuge in another part of his country? If so, how is the assessment made whether he can return there?

Recommended Reading:
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 this Fact-sheet: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/e-library/docs/ceas-fact-sheets/ceas_factsheet_en.pdf

Assignment for those who missed the class: read the preparatory material and submit answers to the questions asked.