Master
2024/2025
Human Migration. Migrant Adaptation and Integration
Type:
Elective course (Population and Development)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Population and Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Theoretical issues of human migration
Human migration - concept and definition
Classification, kinds and types of migration
Sources of information on migration
Migration rates
Factors and reasons for migration
Migration concepts and classification of main scientific approaches
Migration and its impact on population and labor potential
Migration and population dynamics
Migration and its impact on the sex and age structure of the population
Level of education of migrants and labor potential
Migration and ethnic processes
Migration and ethnicity - issues of interaction
Migration and its impact on the ethnic structures of the population
Migration and assimilation processes
National component of migration policy
Migration and the labor market
Labor migration: concept, classification of forms
Modern aspects of demand for labor migrants
Regional features of the use of foreign labor
Illegal migration
Integration Policy
Integration policy: barriers, potential, opportunities
Challenges of social exclusion of migrants
Principles, approaches and contours of the integration policy
Integration policy in the context of migration policy issues
Fundamental problems of integration policy
Manipulation of public opinion
Methodological foundations for the development of state migration policy
Stages of development and implementation of migration policy
Tools for the implementation of migration policy
Mechanisms for implementing migration policy