SS6816 Migration Mobilities and Social Policy (Online)

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Description

The module explores how migration relates to key social policy and social justice issues including human security and rights, citizenship, cultural diversification, governance, borders, media discourses, social exclusion and social structures. It comprises three core thematic sections, each theme addressing an aspect of the intersection between migration, social policy and social justice. Theme 1: Migration policy and governance: transnational migration, governance and citizenship (exploring border securitisation and externalization practices, transnational migration governance, and state-diaspora relations); Theme 2: Migration and society: uneven mobilities and migrant lives (migration regimes, im/mobilities and everyday lives; gender and migration; migrant children and the state) Theme 3: Migration, integration and civil society (focusing on debates surrounding critical multiculturalism and superdiversity; anti-immigration politics; migrant NGOs, social activism and social transformation) Students are introduced to relevant theories and concepts which are explored through empirical and applied case-studies from a range of global contexts. Critical perspectives on media representations of migration is a crosscutting theme and provides a lens through which students develop skills of critical analysis and reflection.
Course period5/01/2629/05/26
Course levelUndergraduate
Course formatLecturer