Objectives and competences
- Understand the connection between international migration, crime and security
- Present, explain and critical evaluate integration approaches in Western societies
- Equip students with knowledge for research of important social phenomena (e.g. migration), their understanding and application of knowledge to other areas of social research
- Understand the broadness of connection between migrations, crime and security issues, which exceeds the stereotypical images presented in media and political discourse.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- International migration in the contemporary world
o Basic characteristics of international migrations
o Influence of legal and social statuses of migrants on their rights, mobility and integration to society
o Theories of migration
- Regulation, control and management of international migration (national and supranational approaches)
o Transformation of migration to security threats – securitization of migration
- International migration and crime
o Crime as a cause for migration
o Migrants as victims of crime
o Crimes of immigrants and their offspring
o Hate crimes, (neo)racism, intolerance and discrimination
- Integration of immigrants into society
o Overview of different integration policies
- Global and local total institutions and international migration
- Selected cases of crimes connected to international migration
o Human trafficking
o Migrant workers as victims of exploitation
o Structural violence/crime and migration
o Penal populism, crime policy, moral panic and migration
- Methodological approaches to migration and crime research (qualitative and quantitative research methods)
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures (lecturer and practitioners as guest lectures), tutorials and case studies.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Subject introduces students with an understanding of one of the key characteristics of world, i.e. international migration. We present critical evaluation of their management and control, evaluation of integration policies, and various forms of connection between international migration and crime.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Students acquire the ability to understand social activities and get methodological knowledge, which enables them empirical research of various social phenomena.
Readings
- Bučar Ručman, A. (2023). Migracije, kriminaliteta in varnost: študijsko gradivo. Fakulteta za varnostne vede.
- Bade, K. (2005). Evropa v gibanju: migracije od poznega 18. stoletja do danes. Založba *Cf.
- Balibar, E. (1991). Is there a ‘Neo-Racism’? V E. Balibar in I. Wallerstein (ur.), Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (str. 17–28). Verso.
- Bučar Ručman, A. (2014). Migracije in kriminaliteta: Pogled čez meje stereotipov in predsodkov. Založba ZRC SAZU.
- Bučar Ručman, A. (2015). Analiza migracij in odnosov v multikulturni skupnosti: primer mestne občine Velenje. Dve domovini, (41), 113–125.
- Bučar Ručman, A. (2016). Strukturno nasilje kot mehanizem zapiranja migrantov v globalne in lokalne totalne institucije. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 67(1), 16–25.
- Bučar-Ručman, A. (2016). Družbeno nadzorstvo in mednarodne migracije: analiza nadzorstva od globalne do lokalne ravni. Dve domovini, (43), 11–22.
- Bučar-Ručman, A. in Frangež, D. (2014). Analiza trgovine z ljudmi z namenom izkoriščanja delovne sile, trgovine z otroki, prisilnega beračenja in izvrševanja kaznivih dejanj: zaključno poročilo raziskave. Urad vlade RS za komuniciranje.
- Castles, S. in Miller, M. J. (2009). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world (4th edition). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Franko Aas, K. (2007). Globalization & crime. Sage.
- Kanduč, Z. in Bučar-Ručman, A. (2016). Razredna vojna, delo in migracije: primer delavcev migrantov v Sloveniji. Dve domovini, (43), 77–89.
- Kuzmanić, T. (1999). Bitja s pol strešice: slovenski rasizem, šovinizem in seksizem. Open Society Institute-Slovenia.
- Leskošek, V. (2005). Uvod: Med nestrpnostjo in sovraštvom. V V. Leskošek (ur.), Mi in oni: Nestrpnost na Slovenskem (str. 9–19). Mirovni inštitut.
- Lukšič-Hacin, M. (1999). Multikulturalizem in migracije. Založba ZRC.
Prerequisits
Basic understanding of sociology and research in social sciences.
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