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Migration

Author/Tutor: Barbara Dietz

Credits: 6

Main goals

• To introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of the migration phenomena and to the explain causes and perspectives of international migration.
• To study the variety of migration movements in Eastern Europe, ranging from asylum and refugee movements to labor and undocumented migration.
• To understand the debate on migration politics and on East-West migration perspectives in the context of the Eastern enlargement of the European Union.

General topics

• Economic, political and social aspects of international migration in Eastern Europe, especially focusing on the period after the political transformation and the break up of the USSR
• Basic theoretical concepts explaining migration from different disciplines
• The newly emerging migration space in Eastern Europe
• Future migration tendencies in an enlarged Europe

Assignments
Students will have to hand in tasks and write an essay.