Exercice to identify different “policy framings” sustaining the making of migration policy.

8 Outubro 2025, 13:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

This practical class focused on migration policies, taking the example of the most recent policy reform under consultation in Portugal. Brining in a piece published on the Government portal, and a brief published by the collective Consortium Migration, students were encouraged to identify different “policy framings” sustaining the making of migration policy. This exercise was graded. 

 

References

Martina Tazzioli, The temporal borders of asylum. Temporality of control in the EU border regime, Political Geography, Volume 64, 2018, Pages 13-22, ISSN 0962-6298, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.02.002

 

 

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European Migration Policies at various levels.

3 Outubro 2025, 15:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

This class focused on European Migration Policies. EU policies are considered at various levels: the legal framework offered by the different treaties of the EU, and directives transposable to national legal frameworks; the agendas, results of discussions and consensus across all EU member states, the last to date being the New Pact; and the mechanisms - agencies, budget and instruments - that enable the implementation of policies.

 

References

Spehar, Andrea (2025). The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Towards a Long-Term Sustainable European Migration Policy? In The Depth and Size of the European Union in a Time of War, Per Ekman, Björn Lundqvist, Anna Michalski and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), pp 197–221. Palgrave Macmillan.

 

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Exercices based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity" and “aspirations”.

3 Outubro 2025, 13:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

This practical class is based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity" and “aspirations”. In small groups, students learnt to actively read this academic piece, and then use it to draw the decision tree of Becky, the main actress of the film Becky’s journey (2016), a Nigerian candidate to migration to Europe. This exercise was graded. 

 

References

Carling, Jørgen; Schewel, Kerilyn (2018). Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, 945–963 (https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384146)

 

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Exercices based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity" and “aspirations”.

1 Outubro 2025, 13:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

This practical class is based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity" and “aspirations”. In small groups, students learnt to actively read this academic piece, and then use it to draw the decision tree of Becky, the main actress of the film Becky’s journey (2016), a Nigerian candidate to migration to Europe. This exercise was graded. 

 

References

Carling, Jørgen; Schewel, Kerilyn (2018). Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, 945–963 (https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384146)

 

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The theories explaining international migrations.

26 Setembro 2025, 15:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves

Students delved into the various theories of international migrations, from the end of the 19th century to now. Each exposed theory was related to its policy implication. Indeed, a macro-economics approach sheds light on the wage differentials that attract or repulse migrants, but also informs specific policies that will aim at controlling those wages. 

 

References

King, Russell (2012). Theories and typologies of migration: an overview and a primer. Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, 3/12. Malmö Institute For Studies Of Migration, Diversity And Welfare (MIM).

 

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