{"id":320849,"date":"2022-11-14T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=320849"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:40:36","slug":"unifesp-creates-48-undergraduate-seats-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/unifesp-creates-48-undergraduate-seats-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Unifesp creates 48 undergraduate seats for refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Registration is open until November 29 for <strong>refugees<\/strong>, stateless persons and humanitarian visa holders in Brazil that want to attend the Federal <strong>University<\/strong> of S\u00e3o Paulo (<strong>Unifesp<\/strong>). Forty-eight seats are open for courses such as Biomedicine, Pedagogy, Administration, Law, International Relations, Social Sciences, Nutrition, Physiotherapy, and others. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sei.unifesp.br\/sei\/publicacoes\/controlador_publicacoes.php?acao=publicacao_visualizar&amp;id_documento=1474551&amp;id_orgao_publicacao=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> [in Portuguese] details the courses and number of available seats. The admissions process is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The seats are distributed across the campuses Baixada Santista, Diadema, Guarulhos, Osasco, S\u00e3o Paulo, Reitoria, and Zona Leste. On December 14, at 4 pm, Unifesp will release in its website the applications eligible for the test phase. Applications from people that already hold a degree from Brazilian public or private higher education institutions will not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must have attained the legal recognition of their condition from the Brazilian government. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a <strong>stateless<\/strong> person is someone who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law. Since August, Brazil has started accepting requests for Brazilian nationality from stateless persons in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN agency, <strong>refugee<\/strong> is someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humanitarian visas<\/strong> are visas granted by Brazil in order to fulfill their international obligation to protect refugees from persecution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The test will be applied on January 18 and will run for 4 hours, from 2 to 6 pm. Applicants will take an objective test and write an essay, and the final grade will be the sum of the two tests. The objective test will feature 25 multiple-choice questions, each containing five alternatives. The essay is mandatory and will be accepted only in Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-320852\">Unifesp\/Supplied<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public university with campuses in several cities in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, is receiving applications from refugees and stateless persons living in the country interested in attending university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":320852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[36569,36567,36566,36565,36568,36570,13291,36571],"class_list":{"0":"post-320849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-refugees-college","9":"tag-refugees-unifesp","10":"tag-school-for-refugees","11":"tag-school-for-stateless-persons","12":"tag-stateless-college","13":"tag-undergraduation-seats","14":"tag-unifesp-en","15":"tag-unifesp-admissions-process"},"wps_subtitle":"Public university with campuses in several cities in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, is receiving applications from refugees and stateless persons living in the country interested in attending university.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}