Dr Isabel Shutes OLD 2.58

Prof Lucinda Platt OLD.2.25

This course is compulsory on the MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Migration). This course is available on the MSc in Global Population Health, MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in International Migration and Public Policy, MSc in International Social and Public Policy, MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Development), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Non-Governmental Organisations) and MSc in Social Policy (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This interdisciplinary course addresses contemporary global migration issues with reference to both developing and developed country contexts; international migration patterns and forms of migration; migration and inequalities; migration, transnationalism and the transformation of welfare systems. Teaching across the course integrates critical theoretical approaches to migration with applications using different migration-related research methods.

Course outline: Global migration trends and processes; Defining migrants and migration; Citizenship, migration policies and the unequal movement of people; Migration motivations, types and processes; Gender and migration; Researching migration; Migration, transnationalism and welfare; The impacts of migration; What does migration mean for social and public policy.

10 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the MT.

Students are expected to participate actively in seminars and to prepare a group presentation, and to write a formative essay linked to their written assignment.

Readings across the course include: Castles, de Haas & Miller (2013) The Age of Migration; Shachar (2009) The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality; Luthra, Platt & Salamonska (2016) "Types of Migration: The Motivations, Composition and Early Integration Patterns of 'New Migrants' in Europe", International Migration Review; Piper (ed) (2008) New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements; Faist, Bilecen, Barglowski & Sienkiewicz (2015) "Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities", Population, Space and Place, 21, 193-202; FitzGerald (2012) "A Comparativist Manifesto for International Migration Studies" Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35: 10, 1725-1740; De Genova (2002) "Migrant 'Illegality' and Deportability in Everyday Life", Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 419-47.

Coursework (100%) in the LT.