Theories of International Migration

7 Março 2018, 14:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Theories of International Migration

Neoclassical (macro)

Neoclassical economics (micro)

New Economics Labour Migration

Dual Labor Market Structural

World systems theory Structural

Network theory

Migration system

Castles, Miller and deHaas (2014) Theories of Migration – Chapter 2, in The Age of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan. King (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 https://www.mah.se/upload/Forskningscentrum/MIM/WB/WB%203.12.pdf

Theories of International Migration

6 Março 2018, 14:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Theories of International Migration

Neoclassical (macro)

Neoclassical economics (micro)

New Economics Labour Migration

Dual Labor Market Structural

World systems theory Structural

Network theory

Migration system

Castles, Miller and deHaas (2014) Theories of Migration – Chapter 2, in The Age of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan. King (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 https://www.mah.se/upload/Forskningscentrum/MIM/WB/WB%203.12.pdf

Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today

2 Março 2018, 14:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today

 Reading - Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.

Group discussion questions – guest worker systems in post-war Europe

1. Common characteristics among all guest worker systems?

2. Pros and cons of the system?

3. What was the political economy of the guest worker system?

4. Why did they decline after 1973?

5. What could have been done differently?

6. US system 

                – pros and cons

                 – how does it compare with the traditional post war European system?

Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today  

28 Fevereiro 2018, 14:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today

 Reading - Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.

Group discussion questions – guest worker systems in post-war Europe

1. Common characteristics among all guest worker systems?

2. Pros and cons of the system?

3. What was the political economy of the guest worker system?

4. Why did they decline after 1973?

5. What could have been done differently?

6. US system 

                – pros and cons

                 – how does it compare with the traditional post war European system?

Understanding international migration in Europe: evolution of flows and types of immigrants.

27 Fevereiro 2018, 14:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Overview–migration patterns in Europe

Pre-war: 1. Emigration to the New World

2. Intra-European flows Post-war

1.Refugees

2. Colonial migration

3. Guestworkersystems

Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.

Hansen, R. (2003) –“Migration to Europe since 1945: its history and its lessons “, in Spencer, S. (ed.), The politics of migration: managing opportunity, conflict and change, pp. 150-162. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

Chapter Four in CASTLES, S. and MILLER, M.J. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. (fourth revised edition) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan and Guilford Books.