Migration and Security

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

This course examines the relationship between migration and security within the context of “securitization”.

Weekly Schedule

1) Introduction
2) Security and Securitization
3) Security and Securitization
4) Migration, Securitization; the Concepts of "Governmentality" and "Biopolitics"
5) European Union and the Migration Issue: A Historical Background
6) European Union and the Migration Issue: An Institutional Approach
7) Security, Sovereignty and Border: European Union and the Concept of "Border Security"
8) Security, Sovereignty and Border: European Union and the Concept of "Border Security"
9) European Union, the Member States of the European Union and Border Management: Case Studies
10) Anti-immigrant and Anti-immigration Attitudes in Europe and Political Parties
11) Anti-immigration and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe and Political Parties
12) Refugee Crisis, Migration and the Relations between the European Union and Turkey: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
13) Security and Securitization: Refugee Crisis, Migration and the Relations between the European Union and Turkey:
14) Selected Readings on Migration, Migrants/Immigrants and the Refugee Crisis in Turkey
15) Selected Readings on Migration, Migrants/Immigrants and the Refugee Crisis in Turkey
16) An Assessment of the Main Issues on Security and Migration

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	30%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	70%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required