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PATHS Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context

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⇑PATHS Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context at SWPS

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why study PATHS Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context (Master's) at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS

Why study it:

Programme: migration seen from many disciplines
Specialisation: three study paths
Placements: internship and fieldwork
Exchanges: a route through European universities
After graduation: work in migration and policy

PATHS Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context is a full-time joint Master's programme taught in English over four semesters, offered by SWPS University together with other universities of the European Reform University Alliance. It is for you if you come from the social sciences or humanities, or have work experience in migration, and want to graduate with a joint degree recognised across Europe.

Programme: migration seen from many disciplines

The programme is grounded in sociology and enriched by political science, law, pedagogy and psychology, so you see forced migration from several angles. It responds to displacement driven by geopolitical instability, environmental concerns and socio-economic factors.

You master qualitative and quantitative research methods and study research in multicultural settings. The programme ends with a joint Master's thesis written in English and co-supervised by academics from at least two partner universities.

Specialisation: three study paths

Each study path focuses on a different aspect of migration and determines which universities you move between:

EU Border Regimes – the legal, technological and social dimensions of European borders, and how global inequalities shape them
Inclusion of Children and Minors – young people in forced displacement seen through law, psychology and sociology, with children's rights, intercultural communication and trauma-informed care
Politics and Policies – how security, humanitarian, rights-based, economic and cultural frames shape public narratives and policy-making

Placements: internship and fieldwork

In the second semester you complete an internship at an organisation of your choice, applying what you learn in a professional setting. Field training and placements in public institutions, intergovernmental organisations and NGOs put you in direct contact with displaced people and migration experts.

Exchanges: a route through European universities

Your route semester by semester

Semester 1Foundation courses at an entry university: Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Paris 8 or New Bulgarian University
Semester 2The whole cohort meets at SWPS University for the methods block, followed by the internship
Semester 3Path-specific courses at the University of the Aegean or the University of Macerata, plus a joint research colloquium
Semester 4Master's thesis under co-supervision, defended in a hybrid session

After graduation: work in migration and policy

Graduates are prepared for work in areas such as:

migration management and border policy agencies at national and European levels
international organisations and NGOs working with refugees and displaced persons
public administration, policy advising and diplomatic relations
legal advocacy and refugee rights
research institutions and think tanks focusing on migration
education, training and intercultural mediation

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

⇑Test: Is PATHS Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context the right fit for you?

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.

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Europe

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison (20 December 1787), The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. VI, p. 392.

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Europe

[T]he escalation of the radicalization of Muslims in Europe, I think, has, in the past 2 or 3 years – and you know the incidents – the Nice truck bombing, the Berlin Christmas Fair bombing, those sorts of incidents, I think, have really worried Europeans... The thing I worry about in Europe is that there is a logic of escalation in some of this. That the people whose voices aren’t heard have to do things to make their voices heard. Do you know what I mean? They’ll have to, you know, like, demonstrate and that kind of thing... Europe can be the scene of world history even if it’s not the protagonist in world history, but it seems to show very little sign of being the protagonist.

Christopher Caldwell, interview with Bill Kristol (20 March 2017)

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Europe

Europe is not really even a geographic entity; it is separated from Asia only at one point, the Bosphorus, by a small stretch of water. North of that there is continuity over the russians steppes, a complete terrestrial flow. I suggest that is also true of culture, and indeed of social organization. Indeed Europe has never been purely isolated, purely Christian. Instead of Christian Europe, one has to see the continent as penetrated by the three world religions that originated in the Near East and which indeed had a common mythology or sacred text; in order of arrival these were Judaism, Christianity and Islam. (...) All have equal entitlements to be present, and in this general ('objective') sense none can be considered only as the Other; they are part of Europe, part of our heritage.

Jack Goody, Islam in Europe, Polity, 2004, p.14

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