EU Specialisation Course
Meeting 4
Overview
- Q&A on the readings
- Studio debate
- Q&A on the template
Q&A
Questions
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What is a social construct? How does this relate to immigration?
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Why does the national security frame dominate the debate on immigration?
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Does prejudice inform the social construction of migration as a threat, or the other way round?
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Which non-state actors are involved in the (de-)securitisation of migration and how?
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What is ethnocentrism? Is it different to prejudice?
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How could we measure ethnocentrism?
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What causes ethnocentrism? How does it link to far-right parties? Would it work the same across the EU?
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What is the role of the media(-framing) of immigration on the far right discourse?
Studio
- Image you were invited to discuss immigration on the TV
- I will assign you a role (politician, expert, host or audience)
- We do 3 rounds so everyone gets their 5 minutes of screen-time
- This can give you an idea of what it may look like
Q&A on the template
- Form pairs
- Tell (in two sentences) what is the problem that you are going to address.
- Tell your peer what kind of data you will collect.
- Reflect together whether the data will allow to address the problem at hand; are there potential issues that may arise during the data collection?
Q&A on the template
- Did you manage to narrow down your problem statement / research question into one-two sentences? If not, you need to work on it and read more literature.
- What are your thoughts about the data? Will you be able to gather relevant observations? What may go wrong?
- Have a look at the work of others – there is nothing wrong in following good practices in data collection and reporting!