Summary of the Course

Migration has become one of the defining issues of international relations. It shapes elections, trade negotiations, security cooperation and relations between neighbours. The Migration Diplomacy and International Immigration Policy course prepares professionals to work on it at every level, from high-level negotiations to the systems that put policy into practice.

The course follows the Republic of Orvania, a fictional state that is at once a country of origin, transit and destination. Participants advise its ministers, audit a proposed third-country processing agreement, negotiate a readmission deal in an interactive simulation, design a labour mobility protocol and plan the integration of new arrivals in one of its cities.

Each module combines short video lessons, real case studies and practical drafting exercises with model answers. Cases range from the UK-Rwanda partnership and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum to US agreements in Central America, labour reform in the Gulf and climate mobility in the Pacific, each examined from the perspective of all the states involved and on the basis of the evidence.

Participants choose one of two tracks: Policy and Diplomacy, for those in foreign ministries, international organisations and advisory roles; or Operations and Administration, for those in immigration agencies, border and consular services, local government and NGOs.

Modules

▪  Module 1: The Geopolitics of Global Migration and State Sovereignty

▪  Module 2: International Legal Frameworks, Forced Displacement and Externalised Asylum

▪  Module 3: Migration Diplomacy, Return and Bilateral Bargaining

▪  Module 4: Political Economy, Labour Mobility and Demographic Change

▪  Module 5: National Immigration Policy Architecture and Legal Systems

▪  Module 6: Border Management, Technology and Operational Logistics

▪  Module 7: Integration, Settlement and Social Cohesion

▪  Module 8: Environmental Change, Climate Displacement and Future Governance

▪  Executive Capstone: Designing a Migration Policy Proposal

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Learning Outcomes

▪  Analyse the drivers of global migration and separate evidence from rhetoric using reliable data

▪  Apply international refugee and human rights law, including non-refoulement, to border, asylum and third-country processing policies

▪  Explain how states use migration cooperation in foreign policy, and prepare and negotiate bilateral readmission and mobility agreements

▪  Design labour mobility schemes that meet economic needs while protecting workers' rights

▪  Assess and reform national immigration systems, legal routes and decision-making processes

▪  Understand the operation of modern border management, biometric systems, asylum determination and return, with the safeguards they require

▪  Develop integration strategies and policy responses to climate-related displacement under the Global Compacts

Course Fee

This course is £295. Instalments are available via Klarna. The course is also included in the GDF Academy Annual Access Plan.