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University Official Master's Degree in Migrations and Social Mediation

  • Mode: research and professional 
  • Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
  • Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Migrations and Social Mediation
  • Places available: 20
  • Cost per credit
  • Admission to doctoral programmes
  • Contact

Participating institutions

- Rovira i Virgili University (coordinator)

- University of Lleida
- Jaume I University (Castelló)

Compulsory student mobility: yes (a minimum of 10 credits and a maximum of 50)

Presentation

The Master's Degree in Migrations and Social Mediation has a twofold purpose. First it trains professionals for different types of social intervention: legal, administrative, NGOs and other types. At the same time, as a Master's programme (which leads into a doctoral programme), our aim is to prepare some of the students to initiate an academic and/or research career, since we are aware that the social and legal sciences have an important role to play in the analysis of migratory processes, and in the criticism of the xenophobic attitudes displayed by a significant part of the receiving society. Research, from this point of view, can and must be communicated, to the extent that they are both university tasks.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requeriments considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may been additionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish

It is an interdisciplinary programme and the main teaching and research lines are the following:

Social Intervention
o Community development and intervention
o (Formal and informal) mechanisms for attending immigrants
o Analysis and diagnosis of local immigration policies
o Psycho-social intervention in the context of immigration
o Mediation in multicultural communities

Legal Sciences
o International law on human rights
o Citizenship and cosmopolitism
o Immigration laws
o Racism and xenophobia

Social Sciences
o Demogeography
o Population and urban social space
o Rural population
o Rural development and European initiatives
o Rural geography
o Social resistance movements and processes of conflict
o Religious movements and transnational identities
o Biograp¡hic memory and immigration
o Ideological bases of identity
o Social reproduction
o Ethnic identity
o Ethnic minorities and globalization processes
o Processes of metropolitanization
o Latin-American migrations
o Citizenship and Immigration
o Food and multiculturalism
o Gender and conjugal relationships in transnational contexts
o Social marginality
o Kinship, social reproduction and migratory networks.
o Rural development
o Transformations of the family and transnational families

Modes

- Professional
- Research 

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

 Academic contact (coordinator)

 Dr. Montserrat Soronellas Masdeu

 Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social (Facultat de Lletres)

 977 558 731 / 977 558 318 

 mariamontserrat.soronellas(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat   
 Administrative contact (secretary)

 Secretariat of the Faculty of Arts

 977 559 513

capsfll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  
 Postgraduate and Doctoral School

 Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona) 

 Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847 

 mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

 Office hours 

Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30

Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00 

July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

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