Migration Processes

The course aims at providing students with an adequate knowledge of the general framework of international migrations in contemporary societies.
In the first part, the students will be guided to grasp the general trends of these processes, their main causes, their connections with other social phenomena (in particular, globalization and evolution of the labour market).
In the second part, the knowledge of some specific parts of the immigrant population will be deepened: women and families, second generations, refugees.
In the third part, the analysis of migration policies will been developed, with reference both to regulation policies (entrance and settlement) and to integration policies (social inclusion and citizenship).

Students will be conducted to acquire a knowledge and a capacity to understand the trends of international migrations in the contemporary world, inserting the Italian case in a global scenario.
At the end of the course, they will have to be able to apply the knowledge they will have acquired to a critical analysis, first of the main models of governance of this phenomenon, and second to the processes of labelling and stereotyping migrant populations and Roma and Sinti minorities.
They will be required to develop a knowledge and a capacity to judge the ways in which issues related to migrations are presented and discussed in the public debate.
Providing space for debating during the classes, students will be encouraged to actively take part in the discussion and to express tidily their opinion about the arguments developed in the course.