NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic
About Us
NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic is the Legal Clinic of NOVA School of Law and the Centre for R&D on Law and Society (CEDIS), which aims to develop research in the field of migration and asylum law, to analyze emerging and persisting challenges in this area, as well as to monitor and evaluate existing legal and policy responses to such challenges. It also aims to recommend changes to the current norms and aid in the development of the mechanisms necessary to ensure and consolidate the rights of applicants and beneficiaries of international protection in Portugal.
Counting on research projects, to which a strong pedagogical component is added, the NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic also aims to guide and refer applicants and beneficiaries of international protection to the competent services in the issues raised.
In order to achieve its goals, the NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic develops work of an informative nature and produces research and content in the area of the right of asylum, also developing training, capacity building and awareness actions.
Mission and objectives
NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic is the Academy in its three aspects:
- TEACHING : learning-by-doing principle.
- RESEARCH : dissemination of studies and reports based on information and experience acquired in carrying out the project.
- SUPPORT SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY: guidance and referral to applicants and beneficiaries of international protection through an integrated service.
Members
- Veronica Corcodel – General Coordinator
- Catarina Carvalho – Administrative Assistant
- André Teixeira – Administrative Assistant
- Mariana Silva – Administrative Assistant
- Dimitra Fragkou – Research Associate
- Carolina Pinto – Research Associate
- Fernanda Leal – Research Associate
- Luana Cardoso – Research Associate
- Sofia Carmo – Research Associate
- Eva Cencen – Research Associate
- Ana Costa – Research Associate
- Inês Horta – Research Associate
- Isabela Lage – Research Associate
- Beatriz Carolina de Jesus Martins – Research Associate
- Susana Ribeiro Brazão – Research Associate
- Tatiana Morais – Research Associate, Advisory Board
- Sonia Maria Ferreira Dias – Collaborator
- Soraya Nour Sckell – Research Associate
- Jeremy Sarkin – Research Associate, Advisory Board
- Francisco Pereira Coutinho – Collaborator