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The Postgraduate Diploma of Specialization programme aims at providing in depth understanding of the following aspects in the area of Social Discrimination, Migration and Citizenship:
1. the historical and contemporary factors that produce and reproduce inequalities, discriminations and exclusion at international, national and local levels and unequal access of states, groups and individuals to material and symbolic resources, authority and power.
2. the various forms of social categorizations; the multiple criteria of categorizing individuals and groups within the social hierarchy (economic condition, age, gender, national origin or citizenship, education, etc.); the complex combinations of such criteria that form the scales and nuances of social hierarchy and the relative significance of these criteria in various societies and eras.
3. the role of the state and institutions in the production and reproduction of inequalities, discriminations and exclusion.
4. planning and implementing policies aiming to face inequalities, discriminations and exclusion, the means to combat them.
5. the ideological/value systems that legitimize/delegitimize inequalities, as well as their transformations in time.
The aim of the M.A. programme is the achievement of a balance among interdisciplinary learning, theoretical and research efficiency, specialization in particular scientific fields and the ability to plan social and educational policies. Particular emphasis will be placed on migration as a current social issue that is connected to cultural and social discrimination and inequalities and constitutes a central political stake in modern societies. Citizenship will be a basic axis of analysis when interrogating difference and multiculturalism and in the examination of processes of state and nation-building or transnational phenomena.
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