Mobile worlds: Borders, displacement and belonging

What it covers

In this unit, you will explore socially and culturally diverse forms of human movement, mobility and migrant experience. This includes colonial settlers, permanent voluntary migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and displaced peoples, and formal and informal labour and love migrants, who move around the globe in ever increasing numbers. You will focus on the global inequality which drives much of this movement, examining global trends in mobilities, remittances, responses and interactions of states, host societies, diasporas and transnational communities around the globe.. The broad aim is to understand the diversity and implications of human mobility and movement and new border regimes that will characterise life in the future. You will grapple with how the perceived threat of migration affects social cohesion and security in the nation-state system, leads to racism and nativism and increasing anxiety, insecurity and inequality in a world changed forever by globalisation. We will investigate all these responses in an effort to decolonise migration studies.

Assessment

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