Admission requirements
This course is only open to students of the Legal Track (LL.M.) of the LDE Master on the Governance of Migration and Diversity, sub-track to European law LL.M..
Description
This course focuses both on the role that migration and diversity play in politics and policies and vice versa. To what extent are contemporary political debates on migration and diversity really new? What role do different political actors have in the fields of migration and diversity? What about the role of minorities in representational democracies? How are migrants and diversity categorized, presented and discussed in public debate and how do policies play into these processes? This course focuses not only on contemporary politics and policymaking, but also on how the processed of categorizations and representation of migration and diversity that stand behind.
Course objectives
Objectives of the course
The aim of this course is to unpack politicization of migration with attention to its manifestation in public opinion, party politics, political movements and public spaces, such as museums. Additional attention is paid to the local level to how migration and diversity are governed in urban settings, and housing challenges related to that.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
Identify the links between political structures, public opinion, migration and diversity policies
Discuss from the theoretical perspective the new political and policy developments
Critically examine categories of policymaking and statistical evidence in migration policymaking
Analyse the role of politicization and conflict in the governance of migration and diversity
Critically interrogate the discursive practices and common representations of migrants and diversity
Timetable
Course takes place at Erasmus University Rotterdam - the schedule will be distributed later.
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Giest lectures
Presentations
Assessment method
Exam: 70%
Short film: 30%
The exact assessment methods are to be determined later.
Submission procedures
to be announced.
Areas to be tested within the exam
The examination syllabus consists of the required reading (literature) for the course, the course information guide and the subjects taught in the lectures, the seminars and all other instructions which are part of the course.
Reading list
Obligatory course materials
Literature will be available on the digital learning environment.
Registration
more information later
Contact
Coordinator: Dr. A Pisarevskaya
Work address: Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, Room T17-04
Email: pisarevskaya@essb.eur.nl
Institution/division
- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Policy, Politics and Society
Remarks
This course is coordinated by Erasmus University Rotterdam and forms part of the specialisation LDE Governance of Migration and Diveristy – Legal, a sub-track of the European Law Master (LL.M.). It can only be attended by students enrolled in this programme.