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Course: Selected problems of immigrants` integration

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Course title Selected problems of immigrants` integration
Course code KSA/SPI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Topinka Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics of particular lectures (L) and seminars (S): L: Introduction - presentation of the syllabus / S: What does it mean to be Czech? Who is integrated? L: Models and dimensions of integration - perspective of migrants / S: Film: "Chino" + discussion about cultural assimilation. L: Models and dimensions of integration - perspective of receiving countries / S: Testing migrant's preparedness to be accepted (language and socio-cultural tests) L: Integration of foreigners in the Czech public policies / S: The case of EU citizens living in the Czech Rep. L: Problems of migrants. / S: Client system. L: Problems with migrants. / S: Migration and criminality. L: Muslims in Europe. / S: Integration: between human rights and rights of nation. L: Second and third generation of migrants. / S: The case of migrants in France. L: Perception and acceptance of migrants by the receiving society. / S: Migrants in media. L: From migrants to minorities. / S: The case of minority formation in the United Kingdom. Factors affecting migrant' integration (presentations of students' findings). Recapitulation of the course, conclusions, formulation of further questions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course represents an introduction to questions of immigrants' integration in the European context. It deals with the basic concepts of integration from the perspective of migrants themselves and their communities as well as from the perspective of the receiving countries. It points to and analyses various challenges (incl. every-day problems) that migrants and the receiving societies need to face up because of the meeting of widely understood otherness. The main aim of the course is to draw students' attention to the fact that immigrants' integration is a multidimensional problem and that there are no easy recipes for it, in particular in liberal democratic countries (the concept of embedded liberalism).
After successful completing the course students will be able to: define various models of integration policy as well as models of immigrants' acculturation; critically describe Czech integration policy; point out problems that immigrants face up; explain various dimensions of immigrants' social integration using examples; critically consider various data and information regarding foreigners; describe, explain as well as classify factors affecting immigrants' integration. Additionally, the course supports students' critical thinking, English proficiency, team working and presentation skills as well as it gives them the possibility to get experience with conducting research.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • BONIFAZI, Corrado, Marek OKÓLSKI, Jeannette SCHOORL and Patrick SIMON (eds.):. International Migration in Europe. New Trends and New Methods of Analysis. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam University Press..
  • CASTLES Stephen, MILLER Mark J.:. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009..
  • HECKMANN, Friedrich and Dominique SCHNAPPER (eds.):. The integration of Immigrants in European Societies : National Differences and Trends of Convergence . Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, 2003..
  • HUNTINGTON, Samuel P.:. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 200..
  • JANOSKI, Thomas:. The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries. Cambridge, UK; New York, N.Y.: University of Cambridge Press, 2010..
  • KAYA, Ayhan:. Islam, Migration and Integration: the Age of Securitization . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009..
  • LUCASSEN, Leo:. The Immigrant Threat: theIntegration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850. Urbana, ILL.; Chicago, ILL. : University of Illinois Press, 2005..
  • MESSINA, Anthony M. and Gallya LAHAV (eds):. The Migration Reader. Exploring Politics and Policies. Colorado, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006..


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