BA Displacement Studies and Human Rights

The Displacement Studies and Human Rights (DSHR) major at Arcadia University is designed for students who want to pursue a concentrated course of study examining and addressing solutions to the systematic and unevenly distributed forms of displacement that transform people into refugees; internally displaced persons; transnational migrants; and so on. This course of study requires students to develop a grasp not only of the causes of sustained displacement, including, but by no means limited, to genocide and targeted persecution; resource exploitation and environmental racism; acute climatological events and ongoing climate change. Students also come to comprehend that displacement is most often the ongoing product of complex interactions between different causes which together create dislocation.