This course, focused on global immigration, provides the opportunity to study the key legal issues facing immigration to a foreign territory and international legal protection of rights of migrants. A comparative introduction to immigration law and policy of specific jurisdictions and its regulation of non-immigrant visas is provided. Key legal and procedural issues relating to admission, entry, removal and remedies against removal are covered. Requirements for seeking temporary or permanent residency, citizenship and nationality in selective states are compared. Finally, the course ends with an examination of criminal law issues, consequences of criminality on global immigration and contemporary legal developments.

CILO-1: Students will be able to relate the significance of international legal protection of migrants for global immigration. CILO-2: Students will be able to identify key legal issues facing immigration to a foreign territory and compare law and policy on immigration of key jurisdictions. CILO-3: Students will be able to interpret typical immigration related legal and procedural standards governing admission, entry, removal and remedies against removal. CILO-4: Students will be able to determine and compare typical legal requirements for seeking residency, citizenship and nationality and grounds for loosing relevant rights. CILO-5: Students will be able to identify potential criminal law issues in immigration and appraise contemporary developments in global immigration law and policy.