The 20th Migration Summer School will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about recent trends in research on the transnational governance of international migration, asylum, and mobility. During ten days at the European University Institute, high-level scientific expertise will be blended with extensive scope for participants to discuss their ideas and develop their professional and career outlooks.
The Migration Summer School will follow a problem-oriented approach to encourage critical engagement. Participants will be supported by extensive background material, debates, group work, individual drop-in sessions with trainers, and sessions during which participants can present their projects. The Summer School provides a unique opportunity to take advantage of the unique research facilities of the European University Institute (including the Library) and to network with an enriching mix of postgraduate students, civil servants, officials at international organisations, representatives from NGOs and other civil society organisations, journalists, policy analysts, and teachers from around the world.
The Migration Summer School will have a global focus through the inputs of professors and researchers from the Migration Policy Centre, supplemented by distinguished keynote speakers. During the first week of the Migration Summer School, we will cover the following topics: migration drivers, migration impacts, migration attitudes, and labour migration. In the second week, we will focus on irregular migration, development and protection, citizenship and integration, and asylum and refugee protection.
A key objective of the Migration Summer School is to create a collaborative experience for all participants. The combined insights from political, economic, sociological, legal, anthropological, and practice-based approaches to the study of migration will provide participants with a deeper understanding of one of the most complex and multifaceted phenomena affecting governments and society across the globe.
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The Migration Summer School is partially funded by the EUI Widening Europe Programme.
The EUI Widening Europe Programme initiative, backed by contributions from the European Union and EUI Contracting States, is designed to strengthen internationalisation, competitiveness, and quality in research in the so-called Widening countries, and thus foster a more cohesive European Higher Education and Research area.