Inequality, Migration and Development

The goal

 presenting and summarizing main theoretical and strategic approaches on relations among inequality, migration and development, as well as positive and negative (global) impacts on these phenomena;
 scrutinizing determinants of inequalities, such as gender, age, ethnicity and migrant status as a development constraint, within and among countries;
 demonstrating specific vulnerable groups’ aggravated access to essential public services, as well as the opportunity for utilizing the migration for country development;
 promoting human rights, with an accent on the prohibition of discrimination, as a tool for improving the position of vulnerable groups resulting from hindered development options.

The outcome

 acknowledging, understanding and analyzing subject matters, causes, relations, consequences and intersections among inequality, migration and development;
 analyzing and reflecting on different types of migration and migration-related inequalities;
 understanding and applying suitable analytical and strategic frameworks on migration related approaches to development;
 arguments based reporting and presenting case studies on inequality, migration and development.

Contents of lectures

Thereotical part:
1. Introductory lecture – the complex intersections among inequality, migration and development
2. Poverty, income inequalities, international aid and development
3. Inequality, immobility, stratified mobility
4. Inequalities and gender
5. Sustainable development goals, global justice perspective and human rights
6. Access to territory, right to have rights for migrants
7. Multiple deprivations, discrimination and development
8. Transnationalism and development
9. Welfare state, access to public services and welfare chauvinism
10. Forced labor and forced migration in the global political economy
11. Diaspora centered development and remittances
12. Readmission and repatriation
13. Reading week
14. Reading week
15. Exam

Contents of exercises

Designing of a case study related to the topics, field work at micro-level, study visits of / to decision makers and professionals in the area.

1. (mandatory) Fine, S., Ypi, L. (Eds.) (2016). Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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2. (mandatory) Bastia, T., Skeldon, R. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. London and New York: Routledge

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3. (further reading) Nyberg–Sørensen, N. (2012). Revisiting the Migration–Development Nexus: From Social Networks and Remittances to Markets for Migration Control. International Migration, 50(3): 61–76;

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4. (further reading) Eisele, K. (2012). Reinforcing Migrants’ Rights? The EU’s Migration and Development Policy Under Review. Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 5: 31–45

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5. (further reading) Piper, N. (2008). The ‘Migration-Development Nexus’ Revisited from a Rights Perspective, Journal of Human Rights, 7(3): 282–298

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Lectures, workshops, case studies