Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

The aim of the course is to understand the European debate on migration costs and benefits and migration policies. It focus both on the European countries as migrant receivers and on the countries at the Neighborhood of Europe as sending countries. It will cover the main issues on migration and it will frame them by using both descriptive information and models to interpret the deep causes of them. The course is divided into three sections which worst 3 credit each, thus the student that need only 6 credit can follows and pass the exam after the first two units while the student who has 9 credits should pass all the units. Occasionally also the first and the last could be accepted for six credit.

The course is part of a broather Diploma in Migration Studies - DMS, which is granted by the Master in International science and European Law. See the web for details.

The student will be able to understand and analyse and contribute in the migration debate by the knowledge of the data sources, their use and the model of analyses of the causes and effects of migration in sending and destination countries.

The students will acquire the conceptual tools to analyse the migration dynamic, their cause and effects both in the destination countries and in the sending countries and to its policy implications

They will learn how to use the analytical tools acquired during the course

capacity to analyse empirically and theoretically phenomena related to migration

capacity to apply the acquired knowledge to specific  country case studies

autonomous assessment and critical evaluation of the role of mirants  in the destination or origin countries

ability to write a short, consistent and comprehensive paper

capacity to assimilate and develop the contents of the course in their working experience

The course will have streaming lessons (on line on the webex platform, recorded) by the Professor but student intervention and participation are expected. The students should elaborate the statistical material and the models that are introduced in class. They should also write and present a Migration Country Report

Written test at the end of each section with in the pandemic period a serieis of multiple choice questions, in the other period open questions and a small Migration Country group report  where the students are supposed to match appropriate data to respond to relevant questions. The tests and the written paper could be eventually, with a written request, provided in italian but all the reading material and lectures will be in english thus the tests and paper should be in english.

Special interventions will be organized by foreign speakers

For a detailed description of the course programme see www.migrationineurope.unito.it and www.europeanmigrationstudiescjm.unito.it

The aim of the course is to understand the European debate on migration costs and benefits and migration policies. It focus both on the European countries as migrant receivers and on the countries at the Neighborhood of Europe as sending countries. It will cover the main issues on migration and it will frame them by using both descriptive information and models to interpret the deep causes of them. The course is divided into three sections which worst 3 credit each

 A-First section: Data, facts. This first section is both methodological and historical. It covers all the definitions (WHO: foreign national or foreign born; legal, non documented; labour, family reunification, refugees, students etc; ) and sources of information on migration available on line and discusses the different implication of the measure used (HOW: census, labour force surveys, resident permits, labour permits, social security data, etc.) and the different legislation which deals with migration issues and define the amount of migrants. During the presentation of the data we will discuss the problematic of migration phenomenon and the decision of migrate and the policy implications.

It also covers the drivers of the migration choice.

 B-Second section: the effects in the destination countries The second section analyse the economic model of interpretation of migrants ‘role in the destination countries. We will start with the analyses of what is common in the debate by looking at the argument presented by the Suisse referendum and other more broad debate.

b-1 The effect on the population of destination countries

b-2-The effect on growth and GNP per capital, Total factor productivity and innovation

b-3-The effect of migrants in the destination labour market

b-4-The effect of migrants on the welfare state (social expenditure)

C- The third section analyses  the effect of migration in the sending countries with a special focus to the Mediterranean countries

c-1 Demographic effect

c-2 Brain Drain and Brain Gain

c-3 Remittances, financial litteracy

c-4 Social remittances

 For readings and slides of the course programme see www.migrationineurope.unito.it or www.europeanmigrationstudiescjm.unito.it

On the final course page you can find a complete syllabus of the course and at the beging of the course a calander with the content of each lesson will be provided.

Given the seminarial style of the lectures, the course can be very difficult for  the students who are unable to follow. Only in case of serious reasons which makes impossible for the student to attend classes a special less updated programm will be provided.