Course Summary
This course provides an overview of international migration trends and explores the economic, political, and social factors that drive migration.Key Learning Points
- Understand the different types of migration and their causes
- Analyze the economic impact of migration on both sending and receiving countries
- Examine the political and social implications of immigration policies
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of international migration trends
- Develop skills to analyze the economic impact of migration on countries
- Learn to examine the political and social implications of immigration policies
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic knowledge of economics and politics
- Proficiency in English
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
- Video lectures
- Quizzes
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- Philip Martin
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Description
ABOUT THE MOOC : INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS: A GLOBAL ISSUE
Outline
- Session 1: Globalization of migration
- INTRODUCTION - VIDEO
- GLOBALIZATION OF MIGRATION
- THE SHIFTING OF MIGRANT CATEGORIES
- A REGIONALIZATION OF MOVEMENTS THAT FORMS COMPLEX MIGRATION SYSTEMS
- DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND
- MIGRATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT: A SELF-SUSTAINING PHENOMENON
- GLOBALIZATION OF MIGRATIONS
- THE FACTORS IN GLOBALIZED MOBILITY
- THE SHIFTING OF MIGRANTS CATEGORIES
- A REGIONALIZATION OF MOVEMENTS THAT FORMS COMPLEX MIGRATION SYSTEMS
- THE MIGRATORY CHALLENGES OF A CONTRADICTORY GLOBALIZATION
- DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND
- THE NEW INFLUENTIAL MIGRATION FIELDS
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- MIGRATION IS A FACTOR IN DEVELOPMENT
- A SERIES OF VERY DIFFERENT SITUATIONS DEPENDING ON THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD
- Quiz 1
- Session 2: Refugees and environmentally displaced persons
- THE EXPLOSION OF ASYLUM IN THE EARLY 1990S AND ITS REDEFINITION
- DETERRENCE, PREVENTION, SECURING OF FLOWS
- IN EUROPE, THE LARGEST REFUGEE MOVEMENT SINCE 1945
- ENVIRONMENTALLY DISPLACED PERSONS: MIGRANTS OF TOMORROW?
- STATELESS PERSONS
- THE EXPLOSION OF ASYLUM IN THE EARLY 1990S AND ITS REDEFINITION
- HARMONIZATION OR EXTERNALIZATION
- DETERRENCE, PREVENTION, SECURING OF FLOW
- IN EUROPE, THE LARGEST REFUGEE MOVEMENT SINCE 1945
- THE CASE OF CALAIS
- THE REFUGEE, AN INTRUDER IN THE STATE ORDER, A CONFIRMATION OF IT, A NOTION TO BE RECONSIDERED?
- ENVIRONMENTALLY DISPLACED PERSONS: MIGRANTS OF TOMORROW?
- STATELESS PERSONS
- WHAT IS A STATELESS PERSON?
- DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES
- THE CASE OF THE BIHARIS IN BANGLADESH
- THE CASE OF THE ROHINGYA
- Quiz 2
- Session 3: Europe
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- EUROPE, A CONTINENT OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM DESPITE ITSELF
- THE MEDITERRANEAN: ONE OF THE GREATEST LINES OF FRACTURE AND PROXIMITY IN THE WORLD
- THE MIGRANT CRISIS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHENGEN AREA
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- THE EUROPEAN UNION FACED WITH THE CHALLENGE OF MIGRATION
- EUROPE, A CONTINENT OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM DESPITE ITSELF
- HARD-TO-READ RESPONSES
- THE MEDITERRANEAN: ONE OF THE GREATEST LINES OF FRACTURE AND PROXIMITY IN THE WORLD
- THE MIGRANT CRISIS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
- A EUROPEAN BORDER CONTROL SYSTEM MARKED BY CLOSING IN THE SOUTH
- INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITY
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHENGEN AREA
- EFFECTS OF THE SCHENGEN AREA
- Quiz 3
- Session 4: France and international migration flows
- INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW - PART 1
- INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW - PART 2
- MIGRATION FIGURES AND ETHNIC STATISTICS - PART 1
- MIGRATION FIGURES AND ETHNIC STATISTICS - PART 2
- LOYALTY AND AFFILIATION: A LOGIC OF INCLUSION /EXCLUSION
- MOBILITIES BY 2050
- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
- IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, FRANCE BECAME A LAND OF IMMIGRATION
- IN THE 20TH CENTURY FRANCE BECAME THE LARGEST COUNTRY OF IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE
- MIGRATION FIGURES AND ETHNICAL STATISTICS
- A POPULATION DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY
- A POPULATION THAT STRUGGLES TO DEFINE ITSELF
- LOYALTY AND AFFILIATION: A LOGIC OF INCLUSION /EXCLUSION
- NEW CHALLENGES: ISLAM, ETHNICITY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND "FRENCH-STYLE" IDENTITY.
- MOBILITIES BY 2050
- Quiz 4
- Session 5: Citizenship and migration
- EVOLVING CITIZENSHIP FACED WITH MIGRATION
- DISTINCTION BETWEEN NATIONALITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND DUAL NATIONALITY
- IMMIGRATION: AN AGENT OF TRANSFORMATION
- GLOBALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP
- EVOLVING CITIZENSHIP FACED WITH MIGRATION
- DISTINCTION BETWEEN NATIONALITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND DUAL NATIONALITY
- MULTICULTURALISM AND TRANSNATIONAL CITIZENSHIP
- IMMIGRATION: AN AGENT OF TRANSFORMATION
- CITIZENSHIP IN FRANCE: CIVIL RIGHTS
- CITIZENSHIP IN FRANCE: THE QUESTION OF SECULARISM
- NEW ISSUES: EUROPE, GLOBALIZATION, DISCRIMINATION
- GLOBALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP
- Quiz 5
- Session 6: Borders
- BORDERS: ORDER OR DISORDER?
- THE CONSTRUCTION OF BORDERS
- FORGOTTEN BORDERS
- EUROPE AND BORDERS
- NEW BORDERS: THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER
- BORDERS: ORDER OR DISORDER?
- THE CONSTRUCTION OF BORDERS
- EUROPE, A LABORATORY
- EUROPE, NEW BORDERS, NEW MOBILITIES
- FORGOTTEN BORDERS
- EUROPE AND BORDERS
- GLOBALIZATION OF FLOWS, OR THE DEFEAT OF NATIONAL BORDERS
- BORDER WALLS IN THE WORLD: POINTS OF TENSION
- NEW BORDERS: THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER
- THE QUESTIONING OF BORDERS
- Quiz 6
- Session 7: Right to mobility and global governance
- THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF MIGRATIONS: MULTILATERALISM, A SLOW REALIZATION
- THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF MIGRATION: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS TIMIDLY TAKE THEIR PLACE AMONG INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- THE RIGHT TO MOBILITY, A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT
- FOR OR AGAINST FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
- IGOS AND NGOS
- THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF MIGRATIONS: MULTILATERALISM, A SLOW REALIZATION
- THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF MIGRATION: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS TIMIDLY TAKE THEIR PLACE AMONG INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- THE EMERGENCE OF THE GLOBAL FORUM ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- THE GLOBAL FORUM ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A "WIN-WIN-WIN" MODEL?
- THE GLOBAL FORUM ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: EVOLUTION OF OBJECTIVES
- THE FUTURE OF THE FORUM
- THE RIGHT TO MOBILITY, A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT
- FOR OR AGAINST FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
- CIVIL SOCIETY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- IGOS AND NGOS
- Quiz 7
- Bibliography
- References
- Maps
- GLOBAL MIGRATION, 2013
- REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, 1990-2014
- INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS SITUATION, END 2014.
- REFUGEE SITUATION, END 2014
- HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX 2013
- REMITTANCES SENT BY MIGRANTS TO THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN, 2013
- ORIGINS AND DESTINATIONS OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS, 2010
- MIGRATION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ITS FORMER REPUBLICS, 1990-2008
- BLACKS AND HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATES 2010
- FILIPINO DIASPORA, 2007
- CHINESE DIASPORA, 2007
- EUROPEAN MIGRATION, 2013
- SCHENGEN AREA
- DEATHS BY THOUSANDS AT THE DOORS OF EUROPE, 1993-2012
- CAMPS FOR FOREIGNERS IN EUROPE AND IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
- MIGRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
- ASYLUM SEEKERS IN EUROPEAN UNION
- IMMIGRATION IN FRANCE: INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1891
- IMMIGRATION IN FRANCE: RECONSTRUCTION, 1931
- IMMIGRATION IN FRANCE: MODERNIZATION, 1975
- Immigration in France: Urbanization, 2012
Summary of User Reviews
Learn about international migrations with this course. Users have praised the course for its in-depth coverage of the topic and engaging lessons. However, some users have noted that the course may be too detailed and difficult to follow at times.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
In-depth coverage of the topicPros from User Reviews
- Engaging lessons
- Expert instructors
- Great for understanding complex issues
- Well-structured course content
Cons from User Reviews
- May be too detailed for some learners
- Difficult to follow at times
- Not enough practical applications
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