ADM4135 IMMIGRATION POLICIES IN EUROPE
| Course Code: | 3104135 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and Public Adm. |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. MEHMET OKYAYUZ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- Enabling the students to understand reasons for the decision(s) to migrate
- Enabling the students to understand the relation between classical (liberal) law and immigration law as a form of an exceptional legal system.
- Enabling the students to understand the functionalization of population movements within the framework of policy making processes.
Enabling the students to identify social, political and economic actors structurizing immigration policies.
Course Content
The aim of this course is to describe and analyze immigration policy as practiced in Germany today, found its basis in the fifties and sixties, especially along two sectors: On the one hand in the areas of politics and law. Rules about migration, residency and work permits were passed at a very early date,
long before the employment of foreign workers on a large scale was ever even considered. On the other hand in the area of economics, e.g. the actual opening of the Western German labor market to foreign workers. These two decades also illustrate a certain amount of continuity about the treatment of foreigners. This continues today along the administrative as well as the political level. As an example, one might mention at this point the regulations concerning residency permits, characterized by vagueness and complete flexibility when being interpretated and executed by German foreign authorities.
Course Learning Outcomes
After a successful completion of the course the students should be able to:
- Understand the reasons for the use of the ‘foreigner’ in public debate for political reasons.
- Understand the all-intogetherness of different forms of population movements.
Develop empathy with the ‘foreigner’
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to reach the information they need in their daily lives, and to interpret it | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being in command of the basic concepts of law | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Understanding the political, economical, and social transformations that occur in a wide range of areas including local and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Defining and solving problems encountered in political, social, and economic life | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being conscious, effective and rational citizens who can comprehend the transformations taking place in Turkey and in the world today | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Being professionals who can operate as productive participants in any public organization | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having the knowledge about how public organizations function and how their decision making processes and mechanisms work | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Developing original solutions to the problems faced in relation to their own area of interest | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Critical thinking ability | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Being in command of the interdisciplinary approaches | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution