Letter of Understanding between GU-Q and EAA Introduces Students to Education Challenges facing Vulnerable Communities

QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) has signed a Letter of Understanding with the Education Above All Foundation with the aim of introducing students enrolled in GU-Q’s International Affairs Fall 2020 course on Migration and Citizenship to the process of creating and implementing projects to educate mobile demographics and to create challenge notes that EAA can use for future projects. 

The Global Migration, Refugees, and Citizenship course that served as the focus of the agreement examined the explosion of international migration that has occurred around the world and the challenges (and opportunities) this movement of people has presented for recipient states. 

Topics included immigrant integration and the challenges of diversity, the crisis of refugees, forced migration and trafficking, human rights and international organizations, and terrorism and security. 

The course instructor was Assistant Professor of political science at GU-Q Dr. Amanda Garrett, who worked with the Education Above All Foundation’s Innovation Development Directorate (IDD) team to introduce the students in the course to the EAA process of researching and choosing future projects and creating challenge notes that EAA can use for future projects. 

Dr. Garrett received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2013. She specializes in comparative and international politics, with a focus on the implications of migration and ethnic diversity in advanced democracies. Her work has examined the domestic consequences of international immigration and integration, the determinants of ethnic violence, the political incorporation of minorities, and the role of Islam in western societies.