Monday, December 8, 2008

Welcome to my USM Moldova Immigration Blog


Welcome to our USM Moldova Immigration Blog. This is a collaborative space where university professors and students will exchange messages, check on the latest trends related to immigration issues and just keep up with news, changes in the legal system in Moldova and around the World. Please feel free to become our co-authors and post, edit, add or upload any information we might all be interested in.

Introduction to Course


ALL STUDENTS:

They will attend the practical classes, the practical lessons will be done in other competent bodies, for example to go at the Migration State Office and to discuss with different specialist, may be to invite them at the lessons, to understand better most of the solution of the problems in practice. To be involved in different NGO’s which have as a main goal the migration process. Students will experience strategies where they will talk, read, write, and reflect as a way to cultivate critical thinking. Students will engage in problem-solving exercises, an in-class educational program presentation, cooperative student projects, informal group work, simulations, games, role play, and other similar activities that ask students to apply what they have learned. One of the main ideas of this course is to create a blog of our English Department where each student can post his project for the topic he/she will prepare. At the end of the course the student will receive a certificate of attendance this course. Each student will have my support and recommendations in case of applying at different programs.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Students who have fully participated in all aspects of the class will successfully be able to: - Understand theoretical models that drive migration process.
- Identify various components that demonstrate that migration has to be prevent and the methods of integration of the immigrants.
- Gain the ability to arrange and carry out discussions to individuals and small groups about the problems that appear in different countries concern the integration of the migrants.
- Demonstrate an ability to use critical thinking skills to analyze a different cases met by them or by their relatives or their friends or related issue.
- Recognize how the politic of different states influence the process of migration as well the each politic of the state influence the politic of other countries, and solving different cases.
- Increase personal awareness, expand knowledge and encourage action.

“Increase personal awareness:
…includes helping students learn more about their own socialization and social identities and the conscious and unconscious
prejudices and assumptions they hold. Through examining personal awareness
students can develop greater clarity about the differential treatment they receive as result of their own memberships. They learn to identify and challenge what are often unexamined beliefs about themselves and others and understand how these beliefs have been established through an unequal system based on hierarchies of privilege and power. Course content also helps students recognize how specific forms of oppression are manifested in their everyday lives through interpersonal interactions, institutional practices, and cultural norms, which guide their behavior as individuals.
Expand knowledge: To expand knowledge, we ask students to examine historical, economic, and social information that defines and reflects oppression
Through readings, videos, lectures and discussion we engage students in learning about the structural and institutional features of oppression and use this knowledge to analyze current examples of oppression in our society.
Encourage actions: We hope that students will create meaningful ways to apply their new awareness and knowledge rather than feel overwhelmed by it. We provide support for identifying possible actions they can take, practicing self-chosen interventions, and planning ways they can continue to act and get support for their actions beyond the course. Our goal is to enable students to see themselves as agents of change, capable of acting on their convictions and in concert with others against the injustices they see.”

Obama on Immigration

Legal Vocabulary Podcast

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Immigration Law and Procedure, in a Nutshell, David Weibssbrodt, Laura Danielson, Thomson West, 2005.
Immigration and Nationality laws of the US, Alexander Aleinikoff, David Martin, 2007.
Stephen Castles & Alastair Davidson, Citizenship and Migration (Globalization and the politics of belonging)
Citizenship in European cities. Immigrants, Local politics and Integration Policies. Rinus Penninx, Karen Kraal, 2005.
From modernization to Globalization, Perspectives on Development and Social Change, Thimos Robbertson, 2000.
The legal Framework and Social Consequences of free movement of persons in the European Union, Elspeph Guild

Course Syllabus

The role of the state politic in integration of the migrants and combating of the emigration process of the citizens. The connection between legal provisions and society contribution in order to help migrants integration and combating the emigration process.
Historical development of the migration process, factors of influence of the migration process;
1.1.1 Factors that influence the migration process in different countries;
1.1.2 Legal migration;
1.1.3 Illegal migration (Trafficking in human beings.)
Moldova and the EU v Russia;

2.1 Strategies of integration taken by the Republic of Moldova.
2.2 Moldova v. Russia, friendship, common history or necessity?

Immigration in US
3.1 Immigrant priorities.
3.1.1 Family Immigration;
3.1.2 Employment based immigration;
3.1.3 Diversity Immigrants
3.2 Nonimmigrant priorities;
3.2.1 Commercial categories of non immigrants;
3.2.2 Educational categories;
3.2.3 Tourists;
3.2.4 Fiancés and Fiancées.
3.3.1 Citizenship.

Immigration in European Countries (European Union Countries)
4.1.1 Permanent immigration;
4.1.2 Temporary immigration (non immigrant priorities);
4.1.3 Citizenship.

The recognizing and the respecting of the migrants’ rights;
5.1.1 Civil rights: the freedom and inviolability of the person, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, protection of unlawful acts by the state, such as imprisonment or forced labor, equality before the law, the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of gender, origins, race, language or beliefs;
5.1.2 Political rights: the right to vote and to stand for office at the various levels of government, freedom of assembly and of association, freedom of information;
5.1.3 Social rights: the right to work, equality of opportunity (in education, the labor market and so on), an entitlement to health services (medical insurance), welfare benefits and social services in the event of unemployment or inability to work, an entitlement to a certain standard of education;

Immigration to Asian countries.
6.1.1 Non immigrant priorities;
6.1.2 Immigrant priorities;
6.1.3 Challenges to immigrate in the Asian countries: cultural problems, social inclusion and political reasons.

Legal procedure to defend immigrants rights
7.1.1 The State authorities of the immigration country.
7.1.2 The State authorities of the emigration countries;
7.1.3 NGO contribution in helping immigrants;
7.1.4 Society contribution in helping immigrants

The ways of fighting against the racism and discrimination;
8.1.1 Immigration, Minority Formation and Racialization;
8.1.2 Ethnic Mobilization and New Political Subjects;
8.1.3 Becoming and Being a citizen, a reality or a dream?
8.1.4 The strategies of prevention the emigration;

USM Moldova Immigration Blog

Welcome to our USM Moldova Immigration Blog. This is a collaborative space where university professors and students will exchange messages, check on the latest trends related to immigration issues and just keep up with news, changes in the legal system in Moldova and around the World. Please feel free to become our co-authors and post, edit, add or upload any information we might all be interested in.