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This course debates topical issues in migration studies, of global scope. The course content is flexible to reflect shifting contemporary concerns. The course builds directly upon, and extends the discussions initiated in the module ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Migration’. The range of topics will be chosen to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the MSc programme, and will complement and extend the approaches course, allowing key concepts to be applied to issues of current controversy.

Students will enhance their knowledge and understanding of contemporary issues in migration in a globalised world - economic, demographic, health-related, political, anthropological, cultural and historical – and the ways in which they have been debated. This appreciation of the scope and nature of argument on key topics will develop critical and analytic skills with regard to the academic literature, policy documents, a wide range of empirical sources. Students will acquire transferable research skills in critical thinking, information collection and management, communication and presentation.

The course will usually involve contact time of 3 hours a week, comprising a mixture of seminars and student led discussions. Each week there will normally be a 2 hour seminar session and a separate 1 hr student led discussion based on readings set a week in advance. Students are expected to engage in independent reading, to make presentations to the group and engage in discussion.