HMGK03301U AMIS: Key Concepts and Analytical Approaches in Migration Studies

Volume 2025/2026
Education

Advanced Migration Studies

Content

This course examines key concepts and analytical frameworks central to migration research. We will critically explore the significance of these concepts – such as coloniality and intersectionality – for understanding migration processes and experiences. Drawing on classical and contemporary theory and research from across the social sciences and humanities, as well as literary and visual works, we will analyze how migration is shaped by and, in turn, reshapes social structures, identities, and imaginaries. The course consists of weekly lectures and student-led tutorials.

 

Exam code: HMGK03301E

Literature

Treitler, Vilna Bashi. 2015. “Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1 (1): 153–65.

 

A complete literature list will be made available at the start of the semester.

This course is only available to Full Degree Students at Advanced Migration Studies and Erasmus Students visiting through an agreement with Advanced Migration Studies (EuMIGS Partners)
Lectures, seminars requiring active participation in discussions, mandatory student presentations, and group assignments.'
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 56
  • Preparation
  • 203
  • Exam Preparation
  • 130
  • Total
  • 389
Written
Oral
Individual
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Feedback by final exam (In addition to the grade)
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination
Type of assessment details
Oral examination of 30 minutes including grading, optional subject, with synopsis.
The synopsis must be maximum 4 standard pages.

In the assessment, the synopsis weighs 1/3 and the oral examination 2/3.
Aid
Only certain aids allowed (see description below)

The permitted exam aids are the synopsis and notes (1-2 standard pages).

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period

June

Re-exam

Conducted in the same manner as the original exam.

Criteria for exam assesment