Migration Theory, Contemporary Patterns, and Development Implications
Students will explore how people moving into (immigration) or out of (emigration) an area can change its population size.
Key Questions
- Apply Ravenstein's laws of migration and Lee's push-pull model to critically analyse contemporary patterns of international migration affecting Ireland and the EU, evaluating the extent to which these classical frameworks explain twenty-first century mobility.
- Evaluate how voluntary economic migration, forced displacement, and asylum-seeking differ in terms of root causes, decision-making processes, and the human rights obligations they generate for receiving states, using contrasting case studies from the Global South and Europe.
- Synthesise the demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of sustained net in-migration for Ireland, using age-structure data, labour market integration statistics, and public service capacity indicators to assess the long-term development implications.
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