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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
POL3612 | International Migration | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Hybrid |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to offer students the opportunity to familiarize and engage with the debates, theories and research on the political aspect of different migratory movements and post-migratory processes. To be able to grasp different types of movements and their political repercussions, the course is divided under three main subsections of migrants, refugees and diasporas. The course also aims at improving the written and oral communication skills of the students, as well as analytical reasoning and creativity. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who successfully complete this course: 1. Evaluate the political dimensions of international migration; 2. Gain knowledge about migration and asylum movements in history and in the current period; 3. Make sense of the relationship between social processes that cause and are created by migration; 4. Comprehend legal and institutional processes of different types of migration; 5. Evaluate the migration processes in Turkey in the context of its global position, together with its causes and consequences. |
Migration theories and trends; the emergence of migration states; citizenship, rights and identities; incorporation policies; border policies; irregular migration, securitization and politicization of migration; national and international asylum regime; the rise of diasporas and transnational identity politics; diaspora inclusion policies; Turkey’s position as a migrant receiving and sending country. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | International Organization for Migration, Key Migration Terms: http://www.iom.int/key-migration-terms International Organization for Migration, World Migration Report, https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int UN 1951 Refugee Convention: http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10 Migrant Integration Policy Index: http://www.mipex.eu/ |
2) | Migration theories and trends | De Haas, H., Czaika, M., Flahaux, M. L., Mahendra, E., Natter, K., Vezzoli, S., & Villares‐Varela, M. (2019). International migration: Trends, determinants, and policy effects. Population and Development Review, 45(4), 885-922. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CZ57SJDKDJZRAU2EPDHP?target=10.1111/padr.12291 Önerilen okumalar Read: Massey, D. S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A., & Taylor, J. E. (1993). Theories of international migration: A review and appraisal. Population and development review, 431-466. |
3) | Emergence of migration states | Hollifield, J. F. (2004). The emerging migration state. International migration review, 38(3), 885-912. Önerilen okumalar Torpey, J. (1998) “Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate ‘Means of Movement’,” Sociological Theory Vol. 16, No. 3: pp. 239-259. |
4) | Citizenship, rights and identities | Bloemraad, I., & Sheares, A. (2017). Understanding membership in a world of global migration:(How) does citizenship matter? International Migration Review, 51(4), 823-867. |
5) | Incorporation policies | Ager, A., & Strang, A. (2008). Understanding integration: A conceptual framework. Journal of refugee studies, 21(2), 166-191. Önerilen okumalar A. Favell (2010) Integration and nations: the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe, In M. Martinello and J. Rath, Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation |
6) | Borders and border policies | D. Fassin (2011) Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times, Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 213-226. Frontex https://frontex.europa.eu/ Önerilen okumalar W. Walters (2015) Migration, vehicles and politics: Three theses on viapolitics, European Journal of Social Theory, 18(4): 469-488. |
7) | MIDTERM EXAM | |
8) | Irregular migration, securitization and politicization of migration | Read: D. Bigo (2002) ‘Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease’, Alternatives 27, p. 63-92. Önerilen okumalar M. Collyer (2006) Migrants, Migration and the Security Paradigm: Constraints and Opportunities, Mediterranean Politics, 11:2, 255-270. |
9) | National and international refugee regime | S. Martin (2010), Forced Migration, the Refugee Regime and the Responsibility to Protect, Global Responsibility to Protect 2: 38-59. Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, available at https://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10 UN General Assembly, New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, available at https://www.unhcr.org/57e39d987 Önerilen okumalar Aleinikoff, T. A. (2017). Toward a Global System of Human Mobility: Three Thoughts. AJIL Unbound, 111, 24-28. |
10) | Rise of diasporas and transnational identity politics | R. Bauböck, & Faist, T. (2010) Diaspora and transnationalism: Concepts, theories and methods (p. 360). Amsterdam University Press, p. 9-34. Önerilen okumalar E. Østergaard-Nielsen (2003) The politics of migrants’ transnational political practices. International migration review, 37(3), 760-786. Basch, Linda; Glick Schiller, Nina & Szanton Blanc, Cristina (1994) Nations unbound: transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments and deterritorialized nation-states, Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, p. 1-21. |
11) | Diaspora engagement policies | A. Gamlen (2014) Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance, International Migration Review, p. 180-217. Önerilen okumalar Delano & A. Gamlen (2014) Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations, Political Geography, 41, p. 43-53. |
12) | Turkey as a country of migration | A. İçduygu & D. Aksel (2013), ‘Turkish migration policies: A critical historical retrospective’, Perceptions. Directorate General for Migration Management, https://www.goc.gov.tr/ F. Adamson (2019), ‘Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s), International Migration Review, 53(1), p. 210-236. D. Aksel, D. B. (2014). Kins, distant workers, diasporas: constructing Turkey’s transnational members abroad. Turkish Studies, 15(2), 195-219. Presidency on Turks Abroad and Related Communities, https://www.ytb.gov.tr/ |
13) | Group presentations | |
14) | REVISION & Q/A SESSION |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Weekly readings will be uploaded on ItsLearning at the beginning of the semester. Please note that all book chapters and articles listed on the syllabus are also accessible through the BAU Library. The PPT files will be shared on ItsLearning following each class. ------- Haftalık ders okumalarının tamamı, dönem başında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. Ders izlencesinde yer alan tüm kitap bölümleri ve makalelere BAU Kütüphanesi’nden de erişilebilir. PowerPoint dosyaları, hafta bazında ve işlenen ders sonrasında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. |
References: | Articles in Course Package --- Ödevlere dair kılavuzlar dönem başında Itslearning’e yüklenir. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Presentation | 1 | % 10 |
Project | 1 | % 35 |
Midterms | 1 | % 15 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 25 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 75 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 12 | 36 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 80 |
Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 4 |
Project | 5 | 20 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 144 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | As a world citizen, she is aware of global economic, political, social and ecological developments and trends. | 2 |
2) | He/she is equipped to closely follow the technological progress required by global and local dynamics and to continue learning. | 2 |
3) | Absorbs basic economic principles and analysis methods and uses them to evaluate daily events. | 2 |
4) | Uses quantitative and statistical tools to identify economic problems, analyze them, and share their findings with relevant stakeholders. | 2 |
5) | Understands the decision-making stages of economic units under existing constraints and incentives, examines the interactions and possible future effects of these decisions. | 1 |
6) | Comprehends new ways of doing business using digital technologies. and new market structures. | 2 |
7) | Takes critical approach to economic and social problems and develops analytical solutions. | 1 |
8) | Has the necessary mathematical equipment to produce analytical solutions and use quantitative research methods. | 2 |
9) | In the works he/she contributes, observes individual and social welfare together and with an ethical perspective. | 2 |
10) | Deals with economic problems with an interdisciplinary approach and seeks solutions by making use of different disciplines. | 1 |
11) | Generates original and innovative ideas in the works she/he contributes as part of a team. | 2 |