Certificate: refugees, forced migration, and belonging

Offered through Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE), the refugees, forced migration, and belonging certification combines a local and global perspective to explore effective ways to support displaced populations in North America, Europe, and other key refugee-receiving regions. You gain a grounded understanding of displacement and forced migration issues, taking into account the complex social, political, economic, and environmental factors shaping population movement.
Understand how and why groups of people move on a global scale. Rather than focus solely on emergency management or international refugee policy, we believe that understanding global migration — voluntary or forced — requires a comparative and historically-grounded approach that weighs the perspectives of different actors. In our refugees, forced migration, and belonging program, we take a participatory, community-based and refugee-centered approach to our work: We prioritize the experiences of affected populations, including migratory and settled groups, and we work with them to identify strategies to remake belonging.