International Migration and Refugees
1
2023-2024
02030177
Sociology
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
7.5
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Classes are theoreticalpractical, 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 review key theories of international migration, explore issues pertinent to contemporary immigration policy, and assess migrants’ and refugees’ characteristics The course intends to be interdisciplinary and will review different theories and empirical approaches in demography, sociology, economics and political science. It is intended that students acquire a reconnaissance capacity of the nature and the characteristics of current migrants and refugees.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
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. Migration Systems in the Present
2.1. Micro, meso and macro structures in the development and support of migration
2.2. Dynamics of contemporary migration systems
3. Refugee Migration
3.1 Refugees and forced migration
3.2. Forced migration, causes, concepts and answers
3.3. Humanitarian responses to refugees: Institutions and obligations
3.4. Displacement and natural disasters
3.5. The role of governmental and intergovernmental institutions in refugee migration
3.6. The relation between international, EU and national asylum law and policies from a historical and a contemporary perspective.
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
GIBNEY, M. The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004
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
MEEUS, B.; et al. (Ed.) An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation. European Perspectives, Springer,New York, London, 2016