EU Specialisation Course

Meeting 1

EU refugee resettlement programme

EU refugee integration  programme

Let's meet

• We will split into groups of three
• Name your favourite movie, play, record, painting or book
• Does this work of art contain or illustrate a problem? And if yes, can social science help us to address it?
• Introduce your group member to us all and tell us what did you discuss
• I will sketch these on the white-board as we go

Intro

Course overview

• What is the objective of this course
• Why are we working with the IRC
• How we will work​ during the classes
  • Q&As
  • Activity
  • Feedback
• Individual written assignment (Nov&Dec)
• (Final) Group essay/report & presentation (semester 2)
• We have limited facetime – check the syllabus for details

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House rules

• Be prepared
• Read
• Ask questions (really)
• Late arrival
• Computer in the classroom

Important

• Today we reflect on the sub-groups (at the end of the session)
• Read the news on your group topic & refugees in general
• Join for the meeting with the IRC
• Hand in the template draft at least 4 working days before the meeting
• Decide in Meeting 3 about the format of your final assignment and RQ (soft deadline December 15)
• Start working on the final assignment no later than beginning of February
• Final paper is due on June 1st
• Final presentation is scheduled for early June as well (June 8th tentative)

Questions?

Q&A

Questions

• What kind of asylum-seekers Europeans are willing to accept?
  • What is a conjoint experiment?
  • Willingness to accept is an operationalisation of ... (conceptual validity from Bennett's book)
• What is resettlement?
  • ​Think about the role of the EU and Member States
• ​Do you think who we are willing to accept influences who gets into a resettlement programme?
  • What are the consequences
• What is integration?​
• • ​Think about the role of the EU and Member States
• ​What is intersectionality in discrimination?
  • ​​How does it affect integration

Quiz

• Answer each question individually

• Be quick

Quiz

• Is Donald Trump planning to deport Prince Harry? The answer is here

Quiz

• What does Taylor Swift have in common with tectonic plates? The answer is here

Quiz

• What is bigger India or Greenland? See here for the answer

Subgroups

• We will split into two groups, yet readings largely overlap
• Ideally people follow their research interes
• Please do not change groups (and RQ) throughout the academic year

Q&A on the template

• Form pairs
• Tell you peer about your strengths in research

Q&A on the template

• Tell me what your match is good at
• Tell me what is the RQ that you are thinking of pursuing
• After meeting 2, I will make suggestions about teams and set-up a share google-drive spreadsheet
• You can team-up ahead (and drop me an e-mail)

Meeting with the IRC

• Please have a look at Action Area 7 in this report

• We are meeting the IRC on Monday October 13th at 12:00 @Square de Meeûs 5-6, 1000 Brussels

• UGent pays for your train ride Gent-Brussels-Gent

• We take the 10:55 IC from Gent SP to Brussels Midi and continue on the metro

• We can meet at 10:45 in front of the main entrance to Gent SP 

Thank you and see you on November 3rd!