Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Delivered at:: Department of Demography (Vishnevsky Institute of Demography)

Course type:: Elective course

When:: 1 year, 3 module

Instructor

Seredkina, Ekaterina

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Abstract

The course provides an understanding of population migration as a demographic, social and economic process of great importance in shaping the world's population. The course will focus on theories and concepts that explain modern migration processes, differences in the demographic behaviour of migrants and the host population, the role of migrants in the labour market, and the organisation of migration and integration policies in countries around the world, with case studies.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of mastering the course “Human migration. Migrant adaptation and integration” is to form ideas about migration as a complex and multilateral socio-demographic and economic process, to become familiar with the main migration conceptions and data, to study the theoretical foundations of migration and integration policy.

Course Contents

Migration policy
Migration and the economy
Migration as a demographic process
Population migration and population mobility.

Assessment Elements

Current activity monitoring
Group project

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 3rd module
0.5 * Current activity monitoring + 0.5 * Group project

Authors

Смидович Глеб Сергеевич
Larionov Aleksandr Vitalevich

Master’s Programme 'Population and Development'

Human Migration. Migrant Adaptation and Integration