International Migration and Refugees

Recommended Prerequisites

Doesnot apply

Teaching Methods

Classes are theoretical-practical, appealing strongly to the participation of students. The teacher proceeds to theoretical systematization and presentation of issues and themes of the program, promoting the debate about the bibliography. The course is organized based on the weekly discussion topics and reference texts. Classes encourage strong involvement of students, who are expected to submit materials and different types of problems for discussion in class, allowing the operationalization of theoretical issues.

Learning Outcomes

This course examines the patterns, processes, and consequences of international migration for immigrants and/or refugees and the receiving countries where they settle. We will review key theories of international migration, explore issues pertinent to contemporary immigration policy, and assess how migrants’ and refugees’ characteristics and host country conditions affect integration. The course intends to be interdisciplinary and will review different theories and empirical approaches in demography, sociology, economics and political science. During the course, we will discuss how to measure and model migration and refugee processes and we will examine different theories on voluntary migration and refugees and their determinants and consequences. It is intended that students acquire a reconnaissance capacity of the nature and the characteristics of the current migratory waves, its causes and consequences in order to find ways to reflect and act on them.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Explanatory Theories of International Migration and Migration Policy.

            1.1. Concepts, conceptual definitions and sources of information on international migration

            1.2. Migration as an object of interdisciplinary research

2. The main migratory waves

            2.1. Transatlantic migration

            2.2. The intra-European migration after World War II

            2.3. Portugal in the context of intra-European migration

3. Migration Systems in the Present

            3.1. Micro, meso and macro structures in the development and support of migration

            3.2. Dynamics of contemporary migration systems

            3.3. Lusophone migratory system

4. Refugee Migration

            4.1 Refugees and forced migration

            4.2. Forced migration, causes, concepts and answers

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Manuel Rodrigues da Silva Madeira e Góis

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

CASTLES, S. & MILLER, M. - The age of migration : international population movements in the modern world. 4th ed. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

 

GÓIS, P. (Ed.) Comunidade(s) cabo-verdiana(s): as múltiplas faces da imigração cabo-verdiana. Lisboa: ACIDI, IP., 2008.

 

MARFLEET, P. Refugees in a Global Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

 

MARTINIELLO, M., RATH, J., (Ed.) An Introduction to International Migration Studies. European Perspectives, IMISCOE AUP, Amsterdam, 2014.

 

MASSEY, D. et al. (2005). Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millenium. OUP.

 

MOSES, J. International migration: globalization's last frontier. Bangkok: White Lotus, 2006.

 

PEIXOTO, J., et al. Vagas Atlânticas. Migrações entre Brasil e Portugal no Início do Século XXI. Lisboa: Mundos Sociais, 2015.

 

PORTES, A. & DEWIND J. (eds). 2007. Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Berghahn Books.V