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Contemporary Issues in International Migration Law
Contemporary Issues in International Migration Law
Contemporary Issues in International Migration Law
Aim: To equip students with the knowledge and analytical skills to analyse and evaluate the legal, political, and philosophical issues relevant to contemporary challenges in international migration law, policy and practice.
Teaching Methods: Teaching is by means of seminar discussion and advanced readings, and case-studies. Case-studies and readings will be assigned in advance.
Credit Weighting: 10
Lecturer: Professor Siobhán Mullally
Learning Objectives:
- Analyse and assess the emerging international legal framework on international migration and the emergence of global migration law
- Analyse and evaluate contemporary human rights law relating to trafficking in human beings
- Analyse and critically evaluate international and regional human rights laws relating to migrant workers and their families, including the gender and ‘race’ dimensions of regulatory frameworks
- Explore models of access to citizenship and the emerging international right to citizenship
- Analyse the human rights of migrant families, family unity and reunification
- Explore contemporary debates in international migration law, including climate migration and internal displacement
Assessment:
The course will be examined by way of a research paper of not more than 5,000 words (including footnotes, excluding bibliography).
Background Reading:
- Chetail V International Migration Law (2016: Oxford UP)
- Gallagher A The Law Relating to Human Trafficking (2010: Oxford UP)
- Carens J The Ethics of Immigration (2014: Oxford UP)
- Chetail V (ed.) International Law and Migration (Edward Elgar Press: 2016)
- Gallagher A International Law of Migrant Smuggling (Oxford UP: 2014)
- Schachar A The Birthright Lottery (Harvard University Press: 2009)