Course Descriptions
1036.4009.01 Migration and Civil Society Workshop
Prof. Adriana Kemp
This workshop takes place during the first and second semesters. The first semester is classroom-based, and the second semester is comprised of an internship. In the first semester students are equipped with the theoretical foundations which prepare students for conducting fieldwork.
10364022 Attitudes toward Immigrants
Dr. Anastasia Gorodzeisky
The seminar focuses on the theoretical models and empirical research of public attitudes toward immigration and immigrants. During the seminar, the students will be introduced to recent national and cross-national comparative studies on the topics and will get to know relevant data sources. The students will carry out their own empirical research. Students are expected to be familiar with quantitative research methods and to perform basic data analysis with one of the following statistical software: SPSS, STATA, or EXCEL.
1036.4029.01 Models of Immigrant Integration and their Challenges
Dr. Esther Lopatin
This seminar will examine various models of immigrant integration in the Western world. We will begin with a discussion of one of the main theories of integration of immigrants, assimilation, with its offshoots, including spatial assimilation, ethnic boundaries and communities, and segmented assimilation. We will then discuss multiculturalism, and how it developed from ideas of value diversity and human rights. Modern critiques of these traditional approaches will also be discussed. We will then examine how different Western countries including EU Member States (such as Britain, Germany, France, etc.) and the United States, implemented different models of integration - assimilation, multiculturalism, and a hybrid of the two, and to what extend they have been considered successful. We will also explore how recent development in the Western World such as the economic and refugee crises in Europe, and change of presidency in the US are impacting the trajectory of integration policy, and particularly, how policy changes are effecting labor migrants and asylum seekers. Finally, we will reflect on future perspectives and which model of integration is likely to be embraced and adopted by many Western countries in the 21st Century in order to address the challenge of integration of immigrant populations.
