Checking date: 26/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Political Economy of Migration
(19178)
Master in Global Sustainable Development and Global Governance (Plan: 473 - Estudio: 376)
EPC


Coordinating teacher: OZEL SERBETÇI, ISIK

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Objectives
Ability to analyze regional and international governance institutions regarding immigration flows. Capacity to analyze the immigration flows in the context of global, regional and national dynamics. Capacity to understand the links between the political and economic precursors and consequences of immigration.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
-Migration flows at the national, regional and international levels (from South to North and South to South) and their implications for socio-economic and environmental sustainability as well as political processes. -Growing phenomenon of 'climate refugees' from the Global South and its challenges for sustainability and domestic politics in countries of the North; the impact of migration on the emergence and acceleration of populism. -The socio-economic impact of the pandemic, political conflicts and other dimensions of migration flows and policies.
Learning activities and methodology
Lectures -Practical sessions -Tutorials -Team paper/ write up -Presentations -Debates -Final exam or individual assignment
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60




Basic Bibliography
  • Bertram, C. . Do States Have the Right to Exclude Migrants?¿. Polity Books. 2018
  • Escriba-Folch, A, C. Meseguer, J.Wright. . Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Autocracies. . Princeton University Press. 2022
  • Marc R. Rosenblum and Daniel J. Tichenor (eds.). Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration . Oxford University Press. 2012
  • World Bank. World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies. . World Bank. 2023
Additional Bibliography
  • Betts, A. . Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement.. Cornell University Press. . 2013

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.