https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/DOPP5661?type=COREPeople on the move and of mobility histories are imagined through their citizenship, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and/or as human beings endowed with, or more often deprived from, various resources, capabilities, and properties. In governing contemporary migration and the relations of mobile people and host societies, policy frames and actions create categories, define problems, redistribute resources, and position migration in a broader set of public affairs. Further, in recent times, migration is often addressed through the concept of crisis. Human mobility is viewed as a cause of crisis, it may complicate already induced crisis, or it may become the solution to a crisis (e.g., in care provisions).The course will examine distinctive themes and streams in migration studies that investigate the crossroads of political and policy debates, structures, and practices. These debates and practices shape the encounters between people on the move and host society, the actual and normative relations between moving, anchoring, and hosting people, and moral, political, or bureaucratic justifications for policy directions, interventions, and lack of interventions. The course topics will embrace contested concepts and paradigms, old and new debates, scales of practices, and transnational and regional connections in the production of policy regimes, mechanisms, and justifications. These topics will center on key issues in governing migration and its effects, including the terms and conditions by which acceptance, denial, or interim positions and rights are offered to people who move in transnational contexts. The course will also investigate the normative centers of political and policy ideas and practices as those normalize or problematize inequality relations in wider global contexts, among people participating in different forms of migration, and between those who are seen as migrants and various host society structures. The course will systematically address the inequality conditions in migration practices and discussions generated or viewed as relations of race and ethnicity, but it will also examine the intersections and tensions between ethnicity and race, nationality, citizenship, and gender relations and in/equalities in migration regimes. The course cannot go very deep in examining the varieties and subtleties of mobility paths, lives, identities, knowledge, and subjectivities among people the migration histories. Yet, the readings and the discussions will shed light on the agency of all social actors in migratory relations. This will be done through engaging with self-reflexive and continuously transforming critical inquiries of growing sensitivity to the differentially positioned subjects of migration studies, and occasionally moving to radically transgressing the boundaries of the subjects and objects of migration studies. The readings are selected from multi-disciplinary academic circles of knowledge production but some fields will have a more pronounced weight, such as sociology, political science, policy studies, and social anthropology, and some cross-disciplinary fields including gender, race, ethnic, and migration studies. The course will offer an introduction to the field of migration studies for those students who have no background in this subject and will help them explore further advanced topics. For those of pre-course exposure to migration scholarship in specific disciplinary domains, the course will give guidance to navigate the most productive cross-disciplinary inquiries. The course may also assist those who plan to take further courses from various CEU programs in the AY to sharpen their insights for further political, policy and governance studies of regional, topical, or methodological foci in migration affairs.Part of the Development and the Social Justice and Human Rights specializations for MAPP and MPAPart of both the Democracy and the Policy track courses for MAIPA