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Instructors: Dr. Bettina Biedermann
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Glob Pub Pol
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Migration is one of the key issues in the current public debate. Cross-border migration is a prominent feature of today’s societies. Migration is affecting both countries from which people emigrate and those to which migrants move. What are the driving factors for migration? Why do people leave their home countries? What are the motives for countries to accept migrants in their societies? And how is the integration of migrants organized in different societies? What are the differences in traditional immigration countries like Australia and Canada compare to Germany?
Educational objective:
Students will learn
- Key migration terms (e.g. migrants, refugees, asylum seekers)
- The theories of migration, including the analyses of push-and pull factors
- The historical development of migration, including post-war migration from Europe to the New World
- Governing migration: The structural variation in the regulation of migration in different countries, including Australia, Canada and Germany
- Dimensions of Immigration policies
- Sociological aspects of migration: the debate on assimilation vs. multiculturalism
- Migration crisis: Migration to Europe in 2015
Further information about the exams:
Students will be expected to prepare a paper and present in class.
Mandatory literature:
Books:
- Collier, Paul (2013): Exodus. How Migration Is Changing Our World. New York: Oxford University Press
- Scheffer, Paul (2011): Immigrant Nations, Cambridge Polity Press
- Castles, Stephen; Miller, Mark, J. (2003): The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. New York:The Guilford Press
- Rosenblum, Marc R..; Techinor, Daniel J. (2012): Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Articles:
- Berlin Institut for Population and Development (2012): Leading on Points: What Germany can learn from Canada's immigration and integration policy
- Münz, Rainer; Ulrich, Ralf (2011): Germany and its immigrants: A socio-demographic analysis, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 24 No. 1: 25-56
- Bade, Klaus J. (1995): From Emigration to Immigration: The German Experience in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in: Central European History, Vol. 28 No.4: 507-535
- Koopmans, Ruud (2013): Multiculturalism and Immigration: A Contested Field in Cross-National Camparision, in: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 39, pp. 147-169
- Collins, Jock (2013): Rethinking Australian Immigration and Immigration Settlement Policy, in: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 34, No.2: 160-177
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