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Migration
Author/Instructor: Barbara Dietz
Credits: 8
Main goals
- To introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of the migration phenomena and to explain causes and perspectives of international migration.
- To study the variety of migration movements in Eastern Europe, ranging from asylum and refugee movements to labor and undocumented migration.
- To understand the debate on migration politics and on East-West migration perspectives in the context of the Eastern enlargement of the European Union.
General topics
- Economic, political and social aspects of international migration in Eastern Europe, especially focusing on the period after the political transformation and the break up of the USSR
- Basic theoretical concepts explaining migration from different disciplines
- The newly emerging migration space in Eastern Europe
- Future migration tendencies in an enlarged Europe
Assignments
Students will have to hand in tasks and write an essay.
Example task from the Migration Module
Present your view on the basic determinants and developments of East-West migration after the Enlargements of the European Union in May 2004 and January 2007. Did the movements behave as predicted, and if not, why? Please write not more than 1,000 words and submit your answer via the assignment function.
Module abstract
Please find a reading example here: Migration.
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