Dr Eiko Thielemann & Dr Patrick McGovern
The course will offer a multidisciplinary approach to the topical subject of international migration, its causes and consequences, and the challenges it presents to policy makers.
Popular myths about migrants and migration will be challenged as the course addresses the highly-charged issues of immigration control and migrant integration. The role of employers, governments, and international organizations such as the European Union will be analysed as the course reviews current policy responses to immigration.
Questions examined in the course include:
- Why has migration become one of the defining issues of the 21st century?
- How can one explain differences in national policy responses and their limited effectiveness?
- How does climate change affect migration?
- What role can international cooperation play in refugee protection?
- How does migrant integration occur?
- Why do immigrants do particular kinds of work?
- Has multiculturalism failed as a model of migrant integration?
What are the major sources of conflict between immigrants and the local born population?
