HMGK03281U AMIS: International Migration
Advanced Migration Studies
This course provides a basic understanding of the patterns of international migration. We will look into current theoretical accounts of causes and effects of different types of migration, and we will discuss the challenges and implications they give rise to for migrants as well as societies. We explore how the causes and dynamics of migration have been explained and understood from different perspectives. We reflect on classical migration theories on why people migrate, including theories on push-pull and network migration, climate change and conflict. To these we add takes on migration "from below", which engage with migration from the point of view of migrants themselves. We discuss historical and postcolonial perspectives on migration, and we take a critical approach to migration categories and the dynamics of migration, questioning and complicating the one-way, cause-effect approaches of classical migration theories. Here, we explore the complexity of migration trajectories, migration infrastructures, internal migration, south-south migration, transnationalism, etc. Further, the course explores how migrants and refugees have been framed, categorized, problematized and regulated/governed by others: nation-states, EU, UN or NGOs. We explore legal and policy framings of migrants and refugees, securitization and bordering in relation to the national order of things, the role of humanitarianism in responding to and framing migration, representations of migrants in popular discourse, and climate-related migration.
Exam code: HMGK03281E
Course compendium & Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller (2020): The Age of Migration (6th ed.), New York, The Guildford Press.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 56
- Preparation
- 203
- Exam Preparation
- 130
- Total
- 389
Full Degree Students at Advanced Migration Studies: 1st year students will be registered by the administration. Others register via the SelfService.
Erasmus Students visiting through an agreement with Advanced Migration Studies (EuMIGS Partners): apply for courses in Mobility Online. Questions regarding course registration should be directed to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk.
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination
- Type of assessment details
- 2022-curriculum: the exam consist of 30 minutes oral examination without preparation including grading. The opening questions will be published two weeks before the first exam date.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
- Exam period
January
- Re-exam
Conducted in the same manner as the original exam.
Criteria for exam assesment
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Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HMGK03281U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- Se Schedule link
International Migration lectures will take place from the beginning of the semester and until appromiximately mid-October
Study board
- Study Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting department
- SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Zachary Whyte (5-7a6b7c7768436b7870316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Zachary Whyte