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
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
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Do you think who we are willing to accept influences who gets into a resettlement programme?
- What are the consequences
- What is integration?
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- Think about the role of the EU and Member States
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What is intersectionality in discrimination?
- How does it affect integration
Quiz
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Answer each question individually
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Be quick
Quiz
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Is Donald Trump planning to deport Prince Harry? The answer is here
Quiz
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What does Taylor Swift have in common with tectonic plates? The answer is here
Quiz
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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
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We are meeting the IRC on Monday October 13th at 12:00 @Square de Meeûs 5-6, 1000 Brussels
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UGent pays for your train ride Gent-Brussels-Gent
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We take the 10:55 IC from Gent SP to Brussels Midi and continue on the metro
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We can meet at 10:45 in front of the main entrance to Gent SP