| Code: ULS529 |
Course Title: MIGRATION STUDIES |
Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 |
ECTS: 6 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
1 / Fall Semester |
| Level of Course |
2nd Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Optional |
| Department |
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MASTER) |
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites |
None |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Teaching Period |
14 Weeks |
| Name of Lecturer |
SERDAR ÇAKMAK (serdarcakmak@nevsehir.edu.tr) |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
SERDAR ÇAKMAK, |
| Language of Instruction |
Turkish |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| This course aims to introduce students, in particular, to fundamental issues such as international refugee law, Turkey's foreigners and asylum law, and host states' immigration and refugee policies; In general, it deals with the relationship between globalization, ethnicity and migration, and cross-border movements from a historical, interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
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| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
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PO-7 deepen the knowledge about national and international institutions which determine the politics
PO-9 To be able to identify their own learning needs and direct the learning.
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
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PO-10 To be able to have the awareness concerning the universality of social rights, social justice, and conservation of cultural values.
PO-14 To be able to discuss the political, social and economic causes and results of the transformations experienced in a society or a government.
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
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PO-6 comprehend the historical background of political issues and make analytical approaches towards future.
PO-11 To be able to abide by social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values regarding the collection, interpretation and propagation of data related to international relations.
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| The course covers the history of migration from the first migration movements to today's migration waves; main approaches and debates on ethnicity and migration; factors affecting migration decision; the relationship between migration and security; the place of immigrants in the labor market; the formation dynamics of ethnic groups; today's refugee crisis and the future of migration, types of migration, international refugee law, Turkey's foreigners and asylum law, immigration policies of states such as the USA and EU members, integration policy, ethnic structure, citizenship concept, the theory of belonging and hospitality. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction to the course: Explaining the content and objectives of the course |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 2 |
Types of Migration |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 3 |
Migration Theories |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 4 |
International Migration Before 1945s |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 5 |
Migration to Europe from 1945 to the Present |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 6 |
Immigration to America |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 7 |
Refugee Crisis |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Effectiveness and Development of Migration Policies |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 10 |
Migrants and Minorities in the Workforce & Development in Immigrant Societies |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 11 |
The production of displacement: Externalization and Postcolonialism in European Migration Control |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 12 |
Externalization of the European Union Migration Regime: The Case of Turkey |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 13 |
Migration and Integration Policies |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 14 |
Socio-economic and cultural dimension of migration |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 15 |
Evaluation |
Lectures, classroom discussions around weekly readings, and student presentations |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Lars Iyer, Göç |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Elspeth Guild, Security and Migration in the 21st Century,(Cambridge, UK and Malden, USA: Polity Press, 2009).
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