POLS208 Миграционна политика
Анотация:
COURSE ANNOTATION AND AIMS:
Migration becomes a key problem in the national, European and international policies. The course introduces the main migration theories and policies. He has three parts. The first analyzes the key concepts: migration, borders, diaspora, citizenship, transnationalism. The second examines three groups of theories: economic, sociological and political with an emphasis on the last one. The third part explores some national models of migration management: British, French, Spanish, Dutch, as well as the europeanisation of migration policy. The Bulgarian migration policy is analyzed in depth.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Анна Кръстева д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
SKILLS:
After completing successfully this course the students will:
1) know:
- The main concepts, theories and models of the migration theory and policy.
2) be capable of:
- To identify the main problems of migration.
- To distinguish and analyze the main models of migration flows management.
- To understand the differences between migration and integration policies.
Предварителни изисквания:
None
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
SYLLABUS:
1. Migration phenomenon today
From "arrows" to "spaghetti". Contemoprary trends. New figures of migrants. Migration and globalization.
2. Key concepts
Borders: typology. Borders and governance. пология. Fragmentation and integration of territoriesBorders, frontiers, boundaries.
Diaspora: definition, social and political uses.
Minority: quantitative and qualitative meaning. Minorities and migration.
Citizenship: model of soil and model of blood. Naturalisation. New types of citizenship: denizenship.
3. Migration
Paradox between the right for free movement of individuals and the right of states to control their borders. History of migrations. Europe in the world migrations. Two types of factors: push and pull. Chicago school. The model of gasterbeiter.
4. Theories of migration
Macro, micro, theory of the world system, theory of the double labor market theory, network theory.
5. European migration policy
From bilateral to multilateral cooperation to communitarization of migration policy.
6. National migration policy
Migration policy and integration policy. Politizatation of migration. Migration panorama, legislation, institutions and integration policy of selected European countries: France, UK, the Netherlands. Spain.
7. East-European Migrations
Political and economic migrations. Differences between Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Demographic and economic factors. Push и pull factors. Balkan migration phenomenon. Forms of migration in SEE: forced, ethnic, trafficking, circular.
8. Migration flows from and to Bulgaria
Emigration from Bulgaria. Immigration to Bulgaria. Comparison with migrations in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
9. Bulgarian migration policy
Institutionalization of asylum and migration policy. Main stages and characteristics. Two national strategies.
10. Return
Impact of the economic crisis or normal migration phenomenon. Impossibility of return of communist migrants. Causes of return. Forms of employment after return. Return and mobility.
11. Brain drain
Brain drain. Brain Gain. Brain circulation. Mobility of highly qualified labor force. Political discourse on brain drain.
12. Political migration
Waves of refugees in histoty. XX century - the century of refugees. Peculiarities of refuges flows today.
13. Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Definition. Dynamics and geography of flows. Lack of institutionalization of the international protection of IDPs.
14. International protection of refugees
Nansen - pioneer of the idea of the responsibility of the international community for defense of asylum seekers. UN High commissioner for refugees. The Geneva Convention of 1951.
15. Bulgarian refugee policy
Bulgarians as refugees: communist period - main form of migration. Are the post-communist refugees recognized?
Refugees in Bulgaria - dynamic of refugee floes. Figures of refugee. Institutionalization - ratification of the Geneva Convention, governmental, nongovernmental and international institutions and organization in defense of refugee rights.
Литература по темите:
SUGGESTED READINGS:
CASTLES S. and M.Miller The age of migration. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
GEDDES Andrew. The politics of migration and immigration in Europe. London: Sage, 2005.
KRASTEVA A. et al (eds) Migrations from and to Southeastern Europe. Ravenna: Longo Editore.
MESSINA A. and G. LAHAV (eds) Migration reader. Exporing politics and policies. London: Boulder, 2006.
MESSINA A. West European immigration and immigration policy in the new century. London:Praeger, 2002.
MEYERS Eytan. International immigration policy. Macmillan : Palgrave, 2004.
Sites
www.iom.int (International Organization for Migration)
www.migrationpolicy.org
www.unhcr.ch
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/MIGRES/
Средства за оценяване:
CONTROL DURING THE SEMESTER:
TEST 34%
PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS 33 %
COURSE WORK/PROJECT 33%