Dynamics of International Migration (original) (raw)
Specific learning outcomes: Knowledge: • Understanding human migration in historical and contemporary perspective • Becoming familiar with global migration trends, push and pull factors of worldwide migration flows, different migration typologies (e.g. regular and irregular, circular, transit and return migration) and migration fields of study (e.g. labour migration, forced migration, migration and development, migration and education, migration and gender, immigrant integration and citizenship) • Learning about the social consequences of migration for sending and receiving societies and about these societies’ responses to migration • Learning about migration actors, policies and legislation at different level of governance, old and new ethnic minorities as well as about specific tools to cope with discrimination and racism in a work-life perspective Skills: • Ability to grasp the breadth of the current migration phenomena as well as to differentiate between perceptions and reality of their extent • Ability to identify differences and similarities between migration flows and between societies’ responses to migration • Ability to deconstruct one’s own position in relation to migrants and ethnic minorities and thus to put oneself into “migrant shoes” Attitude: • Disposition to self-reflectiveness when working or being exposed to encounters with migrants and minorities • Appraisal of the opportunities and benefits of international migration for the individual and the society as a whole
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