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