SP52120: Understanding migrations
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 70%, CWVI 30% |
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By the end of the unit the student will have:
Awareness of the field of migration studies as a whole and of the contributions to that field from different academic disciplines;
An understanding of contemporary forms of international migration and its regulation;
Appreciation for the ways in which international migration - in policy, legal and experiential terms - is mediated by gender, class, 'race'/ethnicity and age / generation;
Skills in preparing a policy brief on some aspect of international migration. |
| Synopsis: | Enhance your understanding of the transnational processes of migration. Explore regulation and policy, and the experiences of migrants and refugees (and how their experiences are shaped by factors of gender, race/ethnicity, age, and class).
Explore the following questions:
- what is a migrant in contrast to a refugee?
- is migration increasing?
- how is migration regulated, how does this affect migrants' experiences?
- what are states and international organisations' responsibilities? |
| Content: | Conceptualizing mobility and migration
The experience of migration and displacement
Migration: the institutional perspective
Humanitarian response to migrants -
The role of governments, multi-lateral and non-governmental organisations
Intersections between migration and `Race' / ethnicity, gender, class and age / generation |
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SP52120 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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