| CODE | SWP5009 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Migration Policy | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit builds on the background provided by the units on interdisciplinary, intercultural and legal aspects of migration and is addressed to persons who need to understand or carry out the planning, administration, delivery and evaluation of services for migrants. Its scope ranges from immigration control to reception, support and integration services, access to welfare services, issues and policies of integration, assimilation and intercommunal relations, the policies and frameworks of the management of asylum processes, integration, and repatriation. Policy conceptualisation will be addressed on the micro service delivery level, the meso or management level, and the macro level, comprising national, bilateral or multilateral, and supranational, including international and EU aspects. Study-unit Aims: To study: the organisation of reception and care services (involving joint sessions with social workers). The delivery of administrative services in caring and security functions. Issues of social capital, education, brain drain and issues relating to cultural diversity integration and intercommunal relations. Policies with varying models of integrating and acculturation. The study and improvement of access to services by various ethnic groups and of migrant-friendly services in health, reception and social services, education, immigration control, Dealing with forced migration and asylum. Labour migration and policies. Development & co-development aspects. Managed migration. Intercommunal and intercultural relations. The study and promotion of good intercultural relations. Issues of multiculturalism. EU policy and international policies agreements on migration. EU Return and Refugee Funds, FRONTEX, Issues of burden sharing. Malta with in the EU policy arena. Maltese political leadership in interaction with communal perceptions and feeling. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: Critically understand the recent history of migration policy; EU’s response to migration, in its , economic, labour, security, international relations aspects, and to situations & challenges pre-, during and post-migration as well as in the context of supranational organisations such as the EU and of globalisation. Describe and critically analyse related policies and provision on the macro, meso and micro level. Managed migration; labour migration and policies, mechanisms and policies for its management. Issues of social capital, education, brain drain and issues relating to cultural diversity integration and intercommunal relations; forced migration and asylum. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills) By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: Effective, appropriately and sensitively plan, develop, deliver and administer or influence services and policies linked with migration, whether in their migration control, reception and welfare or intercommunal relations. Wisely and responsibly apply ethical standards as they deal with the dilemmas, conflicts of values and interests, gaps between declared and practiced policy, the balancing of contrary and even contradictory aims in real situations. Apply policy lessons from other countries and contexts while appropriately adapting them to the receiving context. Research, evaluate and improve services and policies. Influence and exert leadership for better services, living situations and international and intercommunal relations. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Schierup, Hansen & Castles: Migration, Citizenship and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma. C Boswell: European Migration Policies in Flux: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion. Spencer S: The Politics of Migration: Managing Opportunity, Conflicts and Change. Lucas R E B: International Migration and Economic Development: Lessons from low-income countries. Lavenex & Ucarer: Migration and the Externalities of European Integration. P Kelly (ed.): Multiculturalism reconsidered. Report on Mediterranean Migration, prepared for the European Commission by CARIM, October 2005, http://www.carim.org/Publications/AR2005CARIM.pdft |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Peter Mayo Charles Pace |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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