The Program is aimed at comprehensive, practice-oriented training of highly qualified specialists in the field of migration (including transnational), who are in demand both on the Russian and international labor market.

The main goal (mission) of the master’s program is to train specialists with fundamental knowledge and special competencies in the field of migration processes, migration policy and integration of migrants who possess modern methods of data collection and analysis and who correctly interpret the results and are able to apply them in practical work.

Graduates of the program will have sufficient competencies and knowledge to continue their postgraduate studies at any Russian university or research institute, as well as research master’s and PhD programs at foreign universities in such areas as anthropology and ethnology, sociology, political science, history and international relations.

Basic disciplines:

• Migration theories in the social sciences

• Migration processes: past and present

• Ethics and logic of social sciences

• Methodology of modern sociological research

• English for Migration studies

Compulsory disciplines of the variable part:

• Scientific and research seminar «Migration, citizenship, nationalism and ethnicity»

• Migration Policy and Migration Management

• Legal regulation of migration

Disciplines for choice

The educational program includes the following types of practices:

• scientific and research work (including compulsory field work within the program profile);

• organizational and management (educational);

• pre-diploma.

Students of the program can participate in:

• Projects of the Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research at the Tomsk State University;

• Projects of the Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflict (EAWARN) of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

• Projects of the Laboratory of Historical and Political Demography of the Irkutsk State University.

Applicants entering the program must have a diploma of higher education.

State-funded places: 10 places. Studying on contract base is possible.

Admission to the program is carried out on a competitive basis following the results of admission tests:

1. Interview on the program profile;

2. Proof of knowledge of a foreign language: knowledge of English and Russian languages (no lower than B2 level). You will be expected to demonstrate actual language competence during entrance examinations (certificates are not required).

Head of the Program – Iraida V. Nam, Dr.Sc. (History), Head of the Laboratory for Social and Anthropological Research, professor of the Department of Modern Russian History of Tomsk State University

namirina@bk.ru, +7-913-857-5425

Program Manager – Sadyrina Ekaterina, аssistant to the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology of TSU

lukyanova_kate@mail.ru, +7-923-438-35-75

lsar.tsu.ru

e-mail: lsar.tsu@gmail.com 

Address: 634050, Russia, Tomsk, 34 Lenin Ave, room 30