European Security and Mass Migration

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Students taking this course will learn about contemporary migration patterns into the European Union (EU), and the various institutional and legal mechanisms that were in place prior to the 2015 refugee crisis to manage all forms of migration into the EU. The politics of the refugee crisis will then be examined, with an eye to appreciating the various challenges the crisis presented member states, with a focus on security-related issues. Responses and measures to the crisis at the level of individual states and the Union will be covered, with students gaining a deeper appreciation of the benefits, shortcomings, outright failings and consequences of collectively managing crises at the EU-level, as well as potential future developments.