How to write an essay and introduction of essay topics

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

Please select one question from the list below. It is important to write to the precise essay title, not just the general theme.

Your essay should draw on the key references specific to each question outlined in this document. The use of additional literature may strengthen your essay if used well.

Length 3,000 words.

Please use the Harvard Referencing System.

 

“Many policy-makers and members of the public assume a zero-sum game: that is, it is presumed the ‘more transnational’ migrants are, the ‘less integrated’ they must be” (Vertovec, 2007: 1046). Discuss.

Liza Mügge (2016) Transnationalism as a Research Paradigm and Its Relevance for Integration in Penninx, R. and Garcés-Mascareñas, B. (Eds.), Integration Processes and Policies in Europe: A Three-Way Process? IMISCOE. SpringerOpen.

Roger Waldinger (2016): A cross-border perspective on migration: beyond the assimilation/transnationalism debate, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1238863

Erdal, M.B. and C. Oeppen. 2013. “Migrant balancing acts: Understanding the interactions between integration and transnationalism.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 39(6): 867-884.

 

Marta Bivand Erdal (2013) Migrant Transnationalism and Multi-Layered Integration: Norwegian-Pakistani Migrants' Own Reflections, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39:6, 983-999. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.765665

Mazzucato, V. 2008. “The double engagement: transnationalism and integration. Ghanaian

migrants’ lives between Ghana and the Netherlands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34(2), 199-216.

 

Ahrens, J., M. Kelly, and I.van Liempt. 2016. “Free movement? The onward migration of EU citizens born in Somalia, Iran, and Nigeria.” Population, Space and Place 22: 84–98.

 

Discuss the policy challenges faced by the EU in the context of the current migration crisis.

Ruben Andersson (2016): Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: ethnographic notes on a counterproductive industry, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1139446

Fratzke, S. (2015) Not Adding Up: The Fading Promise of Europe's Dublin System. MPI. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/not-adding-fading-promise-europes-dublin-system

Guild, E., Cathryn Costello,Madeline Garlick and Violeta Moreno-Lax (2015) The 2015 Refugee Crisis in the European Union. CEPS Policy Briefs https://www.ceps.eu/system/files/CEPS%20PB332%20Refugee%20Crisis%20in%20EU_0.pdf

Guild, E. Cathryn Costello, Madeline Garlick and Violeta Moreno-Lax (2015) Enhancing the Common European Asylum System and Alternatives to Dublin. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe No. 83 / September 2015 https://www.ceps.eu/system/files/CEPS_LSE_83_0.pdf

Kaunert, C. and Sarah Léonard (2012) The European Union Asylum Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme: Towards Supranational Governance in a Common Area of Protection? Refugee Survey Quarterly (2012) 31 (4): 1 20 doi:10.1093/rsq/hds018

Zetter, R. (2015) Protection in Crisis: Forced Migration and Protection in a Global Era. MPI http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/protection-crisis-forced-migration-and-protection-global-era

Marcello Di Filippo  (2016) Dublin ‘reloaded’ or time for ambitious pragmatism?  EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog– Observatory on European Migration Law, University of Pisa (Italy)

 

Various documents and data: -

http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php

http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php


Most authors writing about migration theory reject the possibility or desirability of a‘grand’ or ‘complete’ theory of migration. Discuss.

 

Castles, S. (2010) Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 36, Issue 10, pp. 1565-1586

Various papers in Castles, S., de Haas, H., Van Hear, N. and Vasta, E. (2010), Editors, Theories of migration and social change. Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies, Volume 36, Issue 10, SPECIAL ISSUE.

de Haas, H. (2007) Migration and Development: A theoretical perspective. IMI working paper 9. Oxford: International Migration Institute, University of Oxford. http://www.heindehaas.com/Publications/de%20Haas%202008%20-%20IMI%20WP9%20-%20Theoretical%20Perspective%20Migration%20and%20Development.pdf

Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino,J. Edward Taylor (1993) Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal, Population and Development Review, Vol. 19, No. 3 pp. 431-466

King, R. (2012) Theories and Typologies of Migration: An Overview and a Primer, Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers, 3/12. Malmo: University of Malmo http://www.mah.se/upload/Forskningscentrum/MIM/WB/WB%203.12.pdf