Unit name | British Immigration, Nationality, and Citizenship Law |
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Unit code | LAWD20045 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Prabhat |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
LAWD10013 Constitutional Rights. |
Co-requisites |
None. |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will engage students in a detailed and critical examination of immigration controls and in doing so will interrogate the protections available to immigrants in the context of the relevant legislation and policies in the UK. This approach of combining law and policy from a critical, contemporary socio-legal approach will develop critical analysis skills of students with regard to contemporary research-informed questions, such as the justification of detention and deportation and the legitimacy of immigration controls more generally in a wider political, economic and theoretical context.
Through involvement in the unit, students will be able to understand and analyse the evolution of the national immigration law system and explain the rationales underlying the legal responses to migration.
At the end of this unit students will be familiar with the following topics:
Learning will be structured around lectures and tutorials. Lectures will provide the basic structure around the assigned reading while tutorials will develop the ideas and generate critical thinking on the issues.
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
Students will be required to submit one formative assignment (max. 1000 words).
There will be two summative pieces of coursework of 2,000 words, one problem question and one essay, each contributing 50% to the final mark.
The problem question, to which students will apply relevant case law and legislation, will test understanding of the black letter provisions of immigration law.
The essay will introduce a case study topic for application of the new learning in the unit and critical analysis of the knowledge acquired.
Together, the assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
Gina Clayton, Immigration and Asylum Law, OUP: Oxford, 5th edn, 2010.
Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, Immigration Law Handbook, 9th edn, OUP: Oxford, 2015.
Spencer, Ian RG. British Immigration Policy Since 1939: The Making of Multi-Racial Britain. Routledge, 2002.
Heath, Anthony F., and James R. Tilley. "British national identity and attitudes towards immigration." International Journal on Multicultural Societies 7.2 (2005): 119-132.
Parekh, Bhikhu. "Being British." Government and Opposition 37.3 (2002): 301-315.