LAW 5906 - Clinic:CARES

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Villanova University

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Description: Special Requirements: Written application. Application must be picked up at the Clinic Office. Completed application should be turned into: Pat Brown, Clinic Office Administrator, Room 7. Must be turned in by posted deadline. Representing asylum seekers before Federal Immigration Court and the Asylum Office, The Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES), taught by Professor Michele Pistone and Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow Marisa Cianciarulo, is an international human rights and immigration clinic. Students represent refugees who have fled human rights abuses in their home countries and seek religious or political asylum in the United States. Working in pairs, CARES students are assigned to represent from beginning to end one or more refugees fleeing human rights abuses in a court proceeding before an Immigration Judge or at an interview before an Asylum Officer. Every semester the work of CARES students results in saving the lives of their clients and reuniting their clients with family members. CARES has represented refugees from such countries as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Rwanda, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jordan, Mexico, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Honduras, Kenya, Mauritania, Cameroon, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Global conditions, among other factors, will determine where CARES concentrates its resources. What is asylum Throughout the world today people are suffering from human rights abuses- they live under constant fear of governments that forbid them from exercising rights that we hold dear as fundamental freedoms and persecute them if they try. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries Asylum from persecution. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14(I) Asylum is an immigration status that the U.S. government confers on people who have fled persecution or have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home countries because of who they are (their race or nationality), what they believe (their religion or political opinion) or their social group. Throughout its history, the United States has been a sanctuary for oppressed people from around the world. The Pilgrims, the Quakers, the Huguenots, the Amish, and countless others came to U.S. shores in centuries past to seek refuge from government oppression. Pennsylvania became a safe haven to many of those victims of government oppression. Human rights abuses similar to those that caused Pennsylvania's first settlers to flee continue today in many parts of the world. CARES helps the victims of these human rights abuses to obtain asylum protection. 8.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School

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8.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.villanova.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 519-4500

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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