Climate-induced migration is an urgent topic of research and policy triggering hot debates around border control, detention and deportation, labour market inclusion, and refugees’ recognition. Policymakers, civil society, and academics have reached some corners in assessing how people on the move are perceived, managed, or rejected by host societies.
This course focuses on migration control policies and practices, from access to the labor market to deportation measures in order to investigate who is more likely to be welcomed (or rejected) from Europe and why. The course dives deep into scholarly discussions on the refugees’ recognition (who’s a climate refugee?), (differentiated) integration of racialized groups, and methods of migration control (e.g., smart borders). Special attention is paid to the processes of organizing at different international, national, and local levels that respond to the needs of more inclusive societies in an era of mass mobility and climate change.
Bringing together sensitive aspects of migration control, the course encourages students to challenge their understanding of migration and state borders, as well as the role of organizations in shaping our understanding of mobility. The course offers students the chance to focus on their own subject within the field of migration management, choosing between enforcement of migration control, moral and legal debates on the freedom of movement, labour rights and social provisions for non-citizens, refugees’ legal status, or the hierarchization of identities during cross-border mobility.
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