Unit name | Migration and Development |
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Unit code | GEOG30018 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Winnie Wang |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Human migration is a key process in globalization and plays an essential part in economic and social transformations in both developing and developed worlds. This unit introduces a range of scholarly debates concerning both theoretical elaborations and empirical studies within the broad field of migration and development. It engages students with the widespread and diverse nature of both internal and international migration and their social, economic and political impacts on development at different levels, from global to local. The unit covers a variety of topics in the central debates of the relationship between migration and development such as economic migration, gender relations in migration, migration policies and politics, refugee crisis, and migration and environment.
The unit aims to help students understand the interactive and interdependent relationship between migration and development from different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches. It also aims to enhance students’ critical thinking in analysing current and past migration trend and issues, particularly related to development.
Lecture outline
Introduction of global migration and development
Main theoretical perspectives on migration and development
Conducting research in migration and development studies
Migration and economic globalization
Internal migration and rural development
Migrants, politics and development
Forced migration and development
Migrants, Citizenship rights and integration
Gender, migration and development
Migration, environment and development
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Lectures - 13 hours
Seminars - 10 hours
Tutorials - 4 hours
Individual 5-minute project presentation (30%)
3000-word research project (70%)
Both assessments test all of the ILOs.
Further required readings will be set for each week. Most of them are journal articles.
Castles, S. and M. J. Miller (2009). The Age of Migration. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London, MacMillan Pres ltd
Castles, S. and Delgado Wise, R. (eds) (2008) Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South. Geneva: IOM. Chap 1-3
Massey, D et al (1993) Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal. Population and Development Review 19:431-66
De Haas, H. (2010) Migration and development: a theoretical perspective. International Migration Review 44(1): 227–264
Handbook Of Research Methods In Migration. Edited by Carlos Vargas-Silva, Senior Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK.