Migration Studies and New Societies

The Master's Degree in Migration Studies and New Societies (MSNS) is a unique joint programme, co-developed within the framework of the "4EU+ European University Alliance" by the University of Milan, the Charles University of Prague and the University of Warsaw. 

The final objectives of Migration Studies and New Societies is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of social and political opportunities and challenges posed by global and intra-EU migration and to enable them to acquire competences and analytical tools for interpreting complex political or socio-economic phenomena in a critical way and for appraising their normative, social, political and anthropological implications. On the basis of the knowledge acquired during the training course, the graduated students will be therefore able (i) to contribute to the actions of international and national governmental and non-governmental organisations and bodies, (ii) to handle tasks and functions concerning the management of migration flows and the integration of migrants, with particular expertise in the European scenario (thus, in full coherence with the objectives of the degree in European Studies). Accordingly, the programme supports the acquisition of methodological tools for examining empirical phenomena, for explaining their dynamics, and for anticipating their evolution as well as the reinforcement of logic and argumentative skills.
The interaction between lecturers and students coming from different European countries aims at fostering educational learning pathways based on dialogue between subjects with different nationality, experience and background. The teaching activities of the Master Degree in Migration Studies and New Societies are mainly organised in seminars and they are designed to follow a student-centered approach, by using innovative teaching methods (e.g.: flipped classroom, laboratory teaching, clinics, case-studies, etc.), in full accordance with the guidelines issued by the "4 EU+ European University Alliance" programme. 
At the end of their studies, the students will obtain a single diploma for the three universities, which will indicate, for each country, the degree class of reference (for Italy the LM-90 ? Studi europei, for Charles University: Master Degree in Social Sciences; for the University of Warsaw: Master's Degree in Artes Liberales).

Profile of the graduate

The graduates of the Migration Studies and New Societies study program

(a) have extensive knowledge in the field of migration studies;

(b) are oriented in the basic theoretical concepts of migration studies in their interdisciplinary anchoring;

(c) have an overview of the possibilities of relevant methodological tools for the study of migration and integration practices;

(d) have a basic orientation in the legal framework of migration to the EU; are capable of this theoretical and methodological equipment apply in practice;

(e) can search and sort information and solve practical and research tasks using appropriate methodological equipment;

(f) can apply knowledge in academic practice, state and public administration, non-profit sector and private sector.