Sumários
European Migration Policies at various levels.
3 Outubro 2025, 15:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves
This class
focused on European Migration Policies. EU policies are considered at various
levels: the legal framework offered by the different treaties of the EU, and
directives transposable to national legal frameworks; the agendas, results of
discussions and consensus across all EU member states, the last to date being
the New Pact; and the mechanisms - agencies, budget and instruments - that
enable the implementation of policies.
References
Spehar, Andrea (2025). The EU’s New Pact on
Migration and Asylum: Towards a Long-Term Sustainable European Migration
Policy? In The Depth and
Size of the European Union in a Time of War, Per Ekman,
Björn
Lundqvist, Anna
Michalski and Lars Oxelheim
(eds.), pp 197–221. Palgrave Macmillan.
Link to the
moodle platform: https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/course/view.php?id=11080
Migration theories - why do people migrate? The case of Becky
3 Outubro 2025, 13:30 • Amandine Françoise Danielle Desille
In this PT class, students were invited to use Carling's aspiration/capacity model and apply it to Becky, a Nigeria aspirant to migrating to Europe.
Exercises based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity" and “aspirations”.
1 Outubro 2025, 13:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves
This
practical class is based on Jorgen Carling’s latest model of “capacity"
and “aspirations”. In small groups, students learnt to actively read this
academic piece, and then use it to draw the decision tree of Becky, the main
actress of the film Becky’s journey (2016), a Nigerian candidate to migration
to Europe. This exercise was graded.
References
Carling, Jørgen; Schewel, Kerilyn (2018).
Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration, Journal of Ethnic
and Migration Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, 945–963 (https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384146)
Link to the
moodle platform: https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/course/view.php?id=11080
The theories explaining international migrations.
26 Setembro 2025, 15:30 • Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves
Students
delved into the various theories of international
migrations, from the end of the 19th century to now. Each exposed theory
was related to its policy implication. Indeed, a macro-economics approach sheds
light on the wage differentials that attract or repulse migrants, but also
informs specific policies that will aim at controlling those wages.
References
King,
Russell (2012). Theories and typologies of migration: an overview and a primer.
Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers in International Migration and Ethnic
Relations, 3/12. Malmö Institute For Studies Of Migration, Diversity And Welfare
(MIM).
Link to the
moodle platform: https://elearning.ulisboa.pt/course/view.php?id=11080
Guestworker system
26 Setembro 2025, 13:30 • Amandine Françoise Danielle Desille
Reading of three texts, discussion and comparison: