- To develop effective migration policies.
- Promote international cooperation policies.
- To raise awareness of and prevent xenophobic, racial and dogmatic behaviour and attitudes both within host societies and among different communities of migrants.
- To develop a critical viewpoint which allows a general and open perspective on migration.
- To design and develop, manage and evaluate programs which provide a service to human groups among which migratory movement is a reality.
- To resolve problems within migratory communities both on an individual and collective scale.
- To plan and to develop scientific research into the phenomenon of migration, and to educate and provide instruction on the topic of migration.
- To be familiar with the appropriate scientific models and to be capable of manipulating the facts which corroborate the hypotheses.
- To generate alternative hypotheses.
- To manipulate facts without arriving at fast and premature conclusions
- To read and analyze specialized literature
- To acquire a language that allows them to express themselves fully
- To identify weaknesses in previous research
- To interpret and understand data with respect to the model it was produced by
- To adopt a coherent posture with regard to the different theoretical approaches
- To acquire a historical perspective, in conjunction with a conceptual definition of terms related to migration.
- To have the basics of demographics, economics, law and communication, applied to the field of migration.
- To adopt a global vision of migratory process, with an emphasis on the effects of context on the individual and group who emigrate.
- To have a knowledge of beliefs about health within different cultural entities. The relation between perceived acculturative stress and mental heath
- To acquire the basis of community intervention and intercultural mediation among groups of migrants.