Migration Summer School

Overview

Key facts

Program Highlights:

• The Migration Summer School program of ELGS - European Law and Governance School is open for Practitioners, NGO Professionals, Researchers & Post-Graduate Students of all disciplines (i.e. Sociology, Social Policy, International Relations, Human Rights, and Economics et al.)

• Meet key academics and experts working in the field

• Doctoral students and researchers will have the opportunity to present their PhD/research at the PhD Seminar.

Goals

This program will offer participants insights on migration in Europe, highlighting its growing relevance for the worldwide discussion on migration and refugee integration policies and combating social exclusion in Europe. It will help them develop a broad theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary migration in Europe and the challenges faced by migrants and refugees, concerning social exclusion and integration, with emphasis on the current situation in Europe. 

On a scientific level, the program aims to develop arguments in relevance to social exclusion and integration in the context of migrant and refugee movements, to assess the implementation of policies, the causes and effects of the migration and refugee flows on European societies of reception and on the migrant/refugee populations themselves and to provide motivation for further research in the field.

Accreditation

• Participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance at the end of the program, after demonstrating their full and active participation throughout the 6-day course. The program does not require written work to be submitted or exams to be taken.
• 8 ECTS: Participants who wish to obtain ECTS are required to submit an essay of approx. 5.000 words at the end of the Summer School on a topic related to the lectures of the MIGSS and supervised by a lecturer of their choice. Deadline for essay submission: 1st September 2024.