Debate: The rise and fall of the Guestworker system in the post war period and today

7 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Group discussion questions – guest worker systems in post-war Europe

1. Common characteristics among all guest worker systems?

2. Pros and cons of the system?

3. What was the political economy of the guest worker system?

4. Why did they decline after 1973?

5. What could have been done differently?

6. US system 

                – pros and cons

                 – how does it compare with the traditional post war European system?

7. Your opinion on guest worker systems? 

The history of Euopean migration: Post WWI

4 Outubro 2016, 13:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Overview–migration patterns in Europe

Pre-war: 1. Emigration to the New World

2. Intra-European flows Post-war

1.Refugees

2. Colonial migration

3. Guestworkersystems

Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.

Hansen, R. (2003) –“Migration to Europe since 1945: its history and its lessons “, in Spencer, S. (ed.), The politics of migration: managing opportunity, conflict and change, pp. 150-162. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

Chapter Four in CASTLES, S. and MILLER, M.J. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. (fourth revised edition) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan and Guilford Books.

Understanding new forms of migration to and within Europe

30 Setembro 2016, 10:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Discussion

King Towards a new map of European migration in  Martinello, M. and Rath, J. (Eds.) (2010) Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation, Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Textbooks

The conceptual framework and main sources of information

27 Setembro 2016, 13:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Mobility and migration

Classifying migration : types/categorisations (characterisation of international migration using recent data).

International migrants in the data: Stocks, Flows, Integration

Refugee Crisis: A Brief Introduction

23 Setembro 2016, 10:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Exploration of the concept of the ‘migration journey’ using a Channel Four web interactive tool.

Discussion of Brooking Policy Brief on the current refugee crisis.