Master
2024/2025
Human Migration. Migrant Adaptation and Integration
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Population and Development)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Ekaterina Seredkina
Master’s programme:
Population and Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Course Syllabus
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.
