The aim:
1. To provide fundamentals of migration law and policy at global, regional, and national level.
2. To acquaint the student with critical notions, concepts, principles and values of migration law.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Students have the knowledge of the character of the current migration movements.
2. Students have the knowledge of the legal system concerning migration.
3. Students have the knowledge of institutions involved in migration issues.

Acquired skills:
1. Students are able to identify and interpret the law as it stands, its written and unwritten rules.
2. Students are able to identify relationships between policy and law in the migration field.
3. Students are able to identify and understand the role of institutions involved in the migration field.
4. Students are able to identify the uncertainties, gaps, controversies and practical problems.

Acquired social skills:
1. Students are able to present and defend in public their position regarding migration.
2. Students are able to identify main legal, social and economic problems arising with migration.

Course contents: 
1. International Migration (terminology, main actors and issues).
2. International Migration Law: Sources and Founding Principles.
3. Global Migration Institutions.
4. International Human Rights of Migrants.
5. Sovereignty and the Freedom of Movement: Right to Enter the Country, Visas and Border Control.
6. Forced migration: International, European and National Policy and Laws concerning Refugees.
7. Labour Migration.
8. Irregular Migration and Return of Irregularly Staying Immigrants.
9. Factors Influencing Successful Integration.
10. Managing Migration trough International and Regional Cooperation.

Recommended reading: 
1. International migration law , Vincent Chetail, Oxford University Press . 2019.
2. Foundations of international migration law, Brian Opeskin, Richard Perruchoud, Jillyanne Redpath-Cross, Cambridge University Press. 2019.

Additional reading: 
1. Migration Governance in the UN: What is the Global Compact and What Does it Mean? // Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 252/2017. Mode of access: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2895636, Elspeth Guild, Stefanie Grant, .
2. An Introduction to the Common European Asylum System for Courts and Tribunals A Judicial Analysis. Mode of access: https://www.iarmj.org/iarlj-documents/general/Introduction_to_the_CEAS_FINAL.pdf, , .
3. International Migration Outlook, the current edition of the annual OECD report, , .
4. European Migration Network (EMN), , .
5. Asylum Inforamtion Database (AIDA), , .
6. The European Database of Asylum Law (EDAL), , .