Crisis Politics and Human Mobility (STG-MA-M5-CMG23)

STG-MA-M5-CMG23

Description

The seminar examines six key questions from the perspective of comparative politics, economics, and law. Although each of these disciplines can and has been used to make a range of arguments on migration and citizenship, the logic of global economics and labour markets often encourages greater openness to migration whereas the requirements of national politics, concerned with the political community bounded by national borders, tends to encourage greater closure. At the same time, the politics of universal human rights and the duty to protect suggest that there are important limits both to state sovereignty and to market logic. Students will discuss theories and insights of these different approaches, critically examining their interaction and implications for public debates and policy-making in practice.