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Course content

In the context of increased international migration, the complex and multifaceted nexus between development, security and migration requires rigorous scholarship to understand the ways in which security and development discourses shape migration policies. While human security is a precondition for development, securitised states and underdevelopment generate instability, conflict and insecurity leading to migration where migrants are treated as 'a risk' or 'at risk'. This course aims to critically approach the migration, security and development nexus from an interdisciplinary perspective (e.g. anthropology, security studies and development studies).

Migration: History, typology, trend (the nexus cannot be addressed without first providing and empirically informed understanding of who migrates, where, for how long, and why).

Migration security nexus: From traditional state security to human security, securitization of migration, Islamophobia and xenophobic discourses.

Migration and development nexus: From development to underdevelopment; poverty, remittances, the brain drain, health and migrant rights.

Migration and policing: The policing of urban space and international borders.

Security-development nexus: The extent to which cycles of insecurity and violence affect the possibility of development for large sections of the world's population, whether underdevelopment can be said to constitute a security threat.

Gender, migration, security and development: Gendered and racialized dimension in migration, development and security issues.

Policy and practices: Migration, security and development in EU policies and practices.

Objectives of the course

The students, with specification, will gain the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

• will be familiar with available empirical evidence on the flows and dynamics of international migration, particularly who migrates, where, for how long, and why.
• will have an overview of the current topical theoretical debates on migration, security and development.
• will have insights into different methodological and policy aspects concerning migration and security.
• will have an understanding of policies of migration management in the EU.

Skills:

• will be able to write a topical text corresponding to their academic level.
• will be able to take active part in academic discussions and to contribute with constructive feedback/peer review.

Competence:

• will be able to reflect on the complex interplay between migration, security and development.
• will be able to unfold the north-south dynamic in migration and security
• will be able to present their projects in an academic setting, and to submit a written work in correspondence with their academic level.

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Assessment

The exam will consist of:

Home exam/essays: Candidates will write an essay of approximately 4000 words within a week, on a set of given topics.

The exam will be graded on an A-F scale where F is a fail. The course is open for a re-sit examination in the next semester.