Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Migration Policy (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Sybille Münch
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 17.10.2016 - 03.02.2017 | C 11.117 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Migration can be regarded as one of the most salient political issues in Western democracies today. Policies regarding the „ selection, admission, settlement and deportation of foreign citizens“ residing in a country (Bjerre et al. 2013) and related questions of citizenship and integration have drawn a lot of public and political attention and sparked many controversial debates, long before the „summer of migration“ 2015. The integration of policies at EU level in the field of migration remains highly uneven: while border control policies are harmonized since Schengen, member states insist on retaining authority in matters of legal migration and especially admission from third-country nationals. In spite of all attempts at harmonization of asylum procedures, so far there is only a slight trend towards convergence. The seminar introduces students to the specific institutional arrangements, controversies and challenges in migration regulation from a comparative perspective. Moreover, it advances participants’ knowledge of concepts and theories in policy analysis more generally, by illustrating how they can serve to explain „what governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes“ (Dye 1976).