Superdiversity and its implications

24 Março 2021, 15:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Analysis and discussion of Steven Vertovec (2007) Super-diversity and its implications, Ethnic and Racial

Studies, 30:6, 1024-1054, DOI: 10.1080/01419870701599465

Superdiversity and its implications

24 Março 2021, 13:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Analysis and discussion of Steven Vertovec (2007) Super-diversity and its implications, Ethnic and Racial

Studies, 30:6, 1024-1054, DOI: 10.1080/01419870701599465

Managing contemporary diversity 1: Trends in integration policy

19 Março 2021, 16:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

• Towards a definition of integration

• National models and their limits based on the fourfold typology of integration models: – Assimilationism; – Multiculturalism/ cultural pluralism; – Ethnic-differentialism; and – Universalism.

• Example: France and the U.K.

Christian Joppke (2007) Beyond national models: Civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe, West European Politics, 30:1, 1- 22, DOI: 10.1080/01402380601019613

Bertossi, C. (2011) National Models of Integration in Europe A Comparative and Critical Analysis Vol. 55: 12, page 1561-1580

New Pact on Migration and Asylum

18 Março 2021, 16:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Critical analysis of the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum

Presentation of results of student-led learning exercise

17 Março 2021, 15:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Group presentations had the  objective of defining and analysing one “type” of migration

Types of migration (one was allocated randomly to each group):

●        Refugees

●        Labour migrants (care)

●        Student migrants

●        High-skilled migrants

●        Lifestyle migrants

●        Investment migrants

●        Undocumented migrants

Guiding questions:

●        Definition and main concepts

●        How has the situation of this type of migration changed/evolved over the last decades? Give key figures and facts.

●        Summarize the state-of-the-art for this type of migration: what is the debate about?

●        Briefly introduce a case study (a piece of research or a research project) that has inspired you.