Constitutional Rights of Migrants in a Comparative Perspective
A.Y. 2026/2027
Learning objectives
Undefined
Expected learning outcomes
Undefined
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The course is organized into three integrated modules which will cover: 1) The Constitutional rights of migrants (Professor Siccardi); 2) Comparative constitutional perspectives on migration and asylum (Professor Siccardi); 3) The supranational and constitutional system of human rights protection towards ethnic and racial minorities with a key focus on the status of minority women in their exercise of cultural and identity rights (Professor Nardocci).
The course is designed to deepen the protection of immigrant rights in the context of constitutional law, within the Italian context and in light of the comparative perspective, and to provide the students with specific knowledge of national policies on asylum seekers. Furthermore, the course will provide students with legal reasoning while working on case law analysis on the protection of social rights, especially in cases revolving around the rights to education and healthcare.
Students will be required to actively engage in the investigation of the relevant case law, the law, policies, relevant documents, and key academic texts to acquire language skills and critical awareness of the main existing challenges.
The course is designed to deepen the protection of immigrant rights in the context of constitutional law, within the Italian context and in light of the comparative perspective, and to provide the students with specific knowledge of national policies on asylum seekers. Furthermore, the course will provide students with legal reasoning while working on case law analysis on the protection of social rights, especially in cases revolving around the rights to education and healthcare.
Students will be required to actively engage in the investigation of the relevant case law, the law, policies, relevant documents, and key academic texts to acquire language skills and critical awareness of the main existing challenges.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
To complete the course, students are expected to:
1. prove their knowledge and awareness of the constitutional rights of migrants at the constitutional level;
2. demonstrate to have understood the relevant constitutional rights of migrants from the comparative perspective;
3. learn and understand the specifics of the status of minorities and minority rights at the constitutional and international human rights law levels;
4. understand the status and rights of so-called minority women in light of the examined constitutional and supranational dimensions;
5. critically examine the safeguards (or lack of) benefiting minority women through the analysis of the relevant caselaw;
6. understand States' policies vis-à-vis cultural diversity and appreciate the differences among: assimilation, pluralism, multiculturalism in the co text of divided or non divided societies, including systems of autonomy;
7. appreciate and critically evaluate the differences among asylum policies;
8. show awareness of the rights of migrants and understand their obstacles in exercising selected fundamental rights;
9. apply the knowledge acquired to specific factual circumstances;
10. acquire oral and written communication skills.
1. prove their knowledge and awareness of the constitutional rights of migrants at the constitutional level;
2. demonstrate to have understood the relevant constitutional rights of migrants from the comparative perspective;
3. learn and understand the specifics of the status of minorities and minority rights at the constitutional and international human rights law levels;
4. understand the status and rights of so-called minority women in light of the examined constitutional and supranational dimensions;
5. critically examine the safeguards (or lack of) benefiting minority women through the analysis of the relevant caselaw;
6. understand States' policies vis-à-vis cultural diversity and appreciate the differences among: assimilation, pluralism, multiculturalism in the co text of divided or non divided societies, including systems of autonomy;
7. appreciate and critically evaluate the differences among asylum policies;
8. show awareness of the rights of migrants and understand their obstacles in exercising selected fundamental rights;
9. apply the knowledge acquired to specific factual circumstances;
10. acquire oral and written communication skills.
Teaching Resources
Monographs, scientific journal and study materials will be regularly posted on MyAriel and/or communicated to the students on MyAriel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The course is structured in three separate, but integrated modules. Students, therefore, will be evaluated on the basis of each module, as each module constitutes a part of the entire program.
At the end of the three modules, students will take a written exam consisting of one open question for each of the three modules.
At the end of the three modules, students will take a written exam consisting of one open question for each of the three modules.
GIUR-05/A - Constitutional and Public Law - University credits: 6
GIUR-11/B - Comparative Public Law - University credits: 3
GIUR-11/B - Comparative Public Law - University credits: 3
Lessons: 60 hours
Professors:
Nardocci Costanza, Siccardi Cecilia
Professor(s)