Announcement: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Series

The H2020 project team Advancing Alternative Migration Governance is presenting the first part of its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Series. The series can be found at the ADMIGOV media channel, with key discussions, concepts and empirical findings, made suitable for students and all who want to learn about the topic. Production: Baris Ozcan and Dr. Ayşen Üstübici.

Overview of the program

Introduction - Anja van Heelsum introduces the overall ideas of the project Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (1:24 minutes)

Work package 1 - MOOC on Entry Governance full version (33 minutes), with Julien Jeandesboz from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium

Instead of watching the full version, you can also watch (or present to your students) the Work package 1 MOOC on Entry Governance in four episodes:

Episode 1: Julien Jeandesboz, introduces the first work package of ADMIGOV: the Governance of Entry (6:43 minutes)
Episode 2: Julien Jeandesboz explains: patterns of Entry in the EU (14:43 minutes)
Episode 3: Julien Jeandesboz explains the law of in the EU. The team made an institutional and legal mapping of regular entry governance (6:30 minutes)
Episode 4:  Julien Jeandesboz explains EU entry in practice. The team has investigated three on-the-ground situations: a sea border (the island of Lesvos in Greece), a land border (the Terespol/Brest border crossing between Belarus and Poland), and an air border (the Brussels National Airport).  (7:44 minutes)

More information

Dr. Anja van Heelsum, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, coordinator of the H2020 project “Advancing Alternative Migration Governance” , or dr Julien Jeandesboz, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium. 

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