Immigration Law

Immigration is a very crucial challenge for Europe. Indeed, the creation of a Common Immigration and Asylum policy is one of the main objectives within the European Union integration process. The course aims to provide an adequate knowledge of Immigration Law through a theoretical and pragmatic approach, allowing students to master the fundamental concepts of the subject with correct legal terminology, systemic thought and proper logical reasoning. The most important rules related to immigration will be analysed taking into consideration the European Union (and its impact on the Italian legal order) and the Italian Law. The course also aims to analyse the legal status of the Third Countries Nationals with particular regard to the issue of the protection of fundamental rights.

The Course will focus on the main issues and on the most actual matters of Immigration Law. In addition to adequate knowledge of immigration law, at the end of the course the student must be in a position to develop his capacity to critically approach on the issues discussed. The course will focus on a critical analysis (also based on the Class discussion) of the most recent and relevant cases related to the migration phenomenon and of some case-law in order to give the student a critical capacity in relation to the different issues and to develop an approach not only theoretical to the subject. At the end of the course the student should be able to interpret the main events relating to immigration policies and law independently from a legal point of view. The approach to the subject will obviously be of a legal nature but immigration ties with other non-legal disciplines will be recalled on several occasions in order to make the student aware of a Degree in Political Science of the need to address immigration issues with a multidisciplinary approach.
In order to foster the student's ability to communicate what has been learned, the students' active participation, discussion and exchange of opinions on the topics will be stimulated within the Course. In this regard, at the end of the course students will be able to elaborate and discuss in the classroom papers related to the topics addressed. The course will also provide tools to enable students to develop correct legal terminology, systemic thought and proper logical reasoning.