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Refugee protection and the human rights of non-citizens have been among the subjects of concern by institutionalised activities and by various social movements and political protests. Not only the failed efforts to achieve similar procedural standards of refugee protection in the European Union and the controversies about the EU’s asylum policy were widely discussed in scholarly and public debates. Over the last decades, we have observed the attempts at consolidating a Human Rights Regime that manifests itself, among others, in the institutionalisation of supranational courts, in national legislations and in the institutionalisation of human rights monitoring around the world (e.g., gathering information about the human rights situation of countries or distinct groups). Given the inequalities and diversities between states and world regions, how is it possible to discuss common standards for refugee protection and for the human rights of citizens and non-citizens residing in the territories of contracting states? This is a course for students with an interest in: Issues of international migration and refugee protection, in the sociology of Human Rights (in particularly their institutionalisation and the controversies about their realization in international and domestic politics), and in the empirical observation of these issues.