SOCA3790
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
Migration, the process through which people travel to other places in order to live and work, is a structural feature of world societies and a powerful force within their historical and contemporary transformations. However, it is often understood and represented as a problem in the media and in political representations, while migrants tend to be stigmatised and marginalised. This course will provide students with the theoretical tools and information to understand and investigate in depth the social transformations framing internal and international migration and its consequences in Australia and across the world.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2023.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Critique the main policymaking, theoretical and political frameworks addressing migration in Australia and internationally.
2. Appraise media representations and debates addressing migration at an advanced level.
3. Produce visual, audio and written media representations of migration-related issues.
4. Analyse complex historical and contemporary social transformations framing migration.
5. Evaluate the implications of migration for both sending and receiving societies at an advanced level.
Content
Topics will include:
- Colonisation, migration and indigenous societies
- Theories of migration
- Media representations of migration
- Migration and development
- Migration and borders
- Impact of migration on receiving and sending societies
- Immigration and social cohesion
- Race, gender and sexuality in migration and asylum
- Migration policies
- Migration, forced labour and trafficking
- Migration and climate change
- Humanitarian migration governance
Assumed knowledge
10 units of SOCA 1000 level course or equivalent.
Assessment items
Case Study / Problem Based Learning: Case Study / Problem Based Learning
Presentation: Presentation
Report: Report
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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