How the European Union regulates migration within and outside its borders: the EU migration and asylum system 4028-SP-WMM-SA1

International conventions and regulations on migration, different categories of migrants in law, migration and human rights.
The development of the EU migration system against the backdrop of global processes; The process of harmonising migration policy: main principles, areas and institutions; External and internal migration in the EU; Legal and political foundations: EU policy towards EU citizens and third-country nationals, visa policy; Community law on the movement of persons; rights of EU citizens and third-country nationals;
The European labour market and migration; Readmission and return policy.

Refugee procedures and asylum law in the EU.
The specific nature of refugee migration in history and today; Overview of data on refugees worldwide and in Europe.
Sources, course and effects of the 2015 ‘migration and refugee crisis’, crisis situations at the EU's external borders, including the Polish-Belarusian border.