Page 24 / De iure September 2018
Meitar Center Breaks New Ground
Mirjam Streng
Recipient of the Azrieli Graduate
Fellowship
Four Phd Candidates
Awarded Prestigious
Scholarships
Four scholars at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced
Legal Studies have received prestigious scholarships
this year. These awards have given the students
a financial boost towards their PhD studies, and
underline their record of excellence and achievement.
The Zvi Meitar Center strives for individual excellence
in research and fosters a community of scholars
who support one another’s academic journey. These
scholarships are a testament to this, and reinforce
the relevance and importance of sound theoretical
research for advancing policy and reflection on
social, political and legal processes in Israel.
Title: Education and Asylum-Seekers: A
Legal and Normative Analysis of Access,
Integration and Educational Content.
Description: Streng researches States’
obligations to guarantee asylum seekers’
right to education, examining their access
to education, integration into education
and minimum curriculum requirements.
Building upon political theory, philosophy
of education and international law, she
evaluates grounds for asylum seekers’
inclusion and exclusion, examines
international law doctrinally and suggests
ways of rethinking State obligations
that guarantee asylum seekers’ right to
education.
Supervisor: Prof. Eyal Benvenisti.
Mirjam says: “I feel so honored to receive
the Azrieli Graduate Fellowship and am very
grateful for the ongoing support from my
supervisor, Prof. Eyal Benvenisti and the Zvi
Meitar Center. It is a tremendous privilege
to be able to dedicate myself to my research
with this Fellowship, further pushing me to
ensure that the education of asylum seekers
gets the attention it so deserves.”