Identifying Data 2019/20
Subject (*) Migration policies and migration law Code 615525012
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 1st four-month period
 Second Optional 6
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Dereito Público
Coordinador
Brandariz Garcia, Jose angel
 E-mail
jose.angel.brandariz@udc.es
Lecturers
Brandariz Garcia, Jose angel
 E-mail
jose.angel.brandariz@udc.es
Web
General description A asignatura realiza unha aproximación a duas cuestións fundamentais na formación en migracións internacionais: a regulación xurídica dos procesos migratorios e do control de fronteiras, e as políticas públicas en materia migratoria, con especial atención á sua vertente de control.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A2 CE2 - Interpretar os feitos e as políticas sociais desde os distintos paradigmas teóricos vixentes na análise da exclusión.
A3 CE3 - Deseñar e desenvolver procesos de observación e documentación para o estudo das políticas e os sistemas de benestar social.
A4 CE4 - Recompilar e interpretar a información suficiente para chegar a diagnósticos fiables sobre os riscos de exclusión e os factores de vulnerabilidade social.
A6 CE6 - Avaliar a capacidade e eficacia das medidas de intervención para corrixir ou previr situacións e procesos de exclusión social.
A10 CEM2 - Dominar as principais ferramentas conceptuais e técnicas que permiten definir un colectivo e unha problemática migratoria como obxecto de estudo e análise.
A11 CEM3 - Demostrar un coñecemento avanzado e crítico sobre as teorías e os debates académicos actuais de maior relevancia sobre as dinámicas migratorias e os procesos de integración dos colectivos migrantes.
A12 CEM4 - Explicar os principios básicos que orientan os distintos tipos de políticas migratorias existentes, e analizar a eficacia, o deseño e a xestión destas políticas.
B4 CB4 - Identificar os dilemas éticos e a responsabilidade social tras os retos formulados na práctica profesional e investigadora.
B6 CB6 - Posuír e comprender coñecementos que proporcionen unha base ou oportunidade para ser orixinais no desenvolvemento e/ou a aplicación de ideas, a miúdo nun contexto de investigación.
B14 CX2 - Realizar unha análise crítica da realidade social e do desenvolvemento profesional vinculada aos feitos sociais sobre os que se traballa.
B18 CX6 - Valorar a adecuación das distintas ferramentas teóricas, metodolóxicas e técnicas ás preguntas e os obxectivos específicos formulados sobre a realidade social e as políticas sociais.
B20 CX8 - Aplicar a perspectiva comparada na comprensión das problemáticas sociais e das respostas e solucións políticas.
B21 CX9 - Aplicar unha perspectiva interdisciplinar na análise e a valoración de problemáticas de exclusión e políticas sociais de inclusión e cohesión.
B22 CX10 - Recoñecer e valorar os xuízos de valor e as evidencias nos argumentos que sosteñen as descricións e políticas sobre a realidade social.
C1 CT1 - Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages.
C3 CT3 - Using ICT in working contexts and lifelong learning.
C5 CT5 - Understanding the importance of entrepreneurial culture and the useful means for enterprising people.
C6 CT6 -Acquiring skills for healthy lifestyles, and healthy habits and routines.
C7 CT7 - Developing the ability to work in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams in order to offer proposals that can contribute to a sustainable environmental, economic, political and social development.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
This course will allow the student to: a) Consolidate his/her knowledge on the essential components of the legal regulation on immigration. b) Grasp EU and Spanish migration policies, in relation to both migration control and integration of newcomers. AC2
AC3
AC4
AC6
AC10
AC11
AC12
 BC4
BC6
BC14
BC18
BC20
BC21
BC22
 CC1
CC3
CC5
CC6
CC7

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
As políticas migratorias na Unión Europa
• As políticas de control da fronteira Sur de Europa
• Rexímenes xurídicos aplicables aos estranxeiros
• Dereitos e liberdades dos estranxeiros
EU migration policies.
Migration enforcement in the Southern EU border
Legal regulation regarding migrants and non citizens
Fundamental rights acknowledged to non national individuals

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Directed discussion A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 6 6 12
Seminar A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 6 6 12
Supervised projects A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 1 77 78
Guest lecture / keynote speech A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 12 36 48
 
Personalized attention 0 0
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Directed discussion Debate on essential topics of the course.
Seminar Lectures given by invited lecturers, Spanish and foreigners alike.
Supervised projects Essay aimed at exploring key topics of the course, which will be supervised by the lecturer.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Theoretical lectures aimed at examining the topics of the course.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Directed discussion
Seminar
Description
The personalized attention of the students will not be associated to a specific methodology, since it will be an uninterrupted task. For these purposes, every activity of the course will be backed by the personal attention given by the lecturer, in order to enable the student to pose questions and to allow the lecturer to adjust his or her methodologies to the particular needs of each student.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Supervised projects A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 Both the ability of the student to examine the analysed topic and his/her ability to frame the research on the topic will be particularly assessed. 70
Guest lecture / keynote speech A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 During theoretical lectures the active participation of the students will be assessed. 10
Directed discussion A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 Both the active participation of the student in the discussion and his/her ability to analyse the debated topic will be particularly assessed. 10
Seminar A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 A11 A12 B4 B6 B14 B18 B20 B21 B22 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 The active participation of the students in debating the topics raised by the invited lecturer will be particularly assessed. 10
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic

Theoretical materials will be provided to the students. No specific textbook will be recommended. Empirical exercises, in turn, will be carried out by taking stock of a number of publicly available databases on migration law and migration law enforcement issues.

Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Integration and intercultural relations/615525011
The Spanish migration model/615525014
Cooperation, migration. and development/615525015

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.