ATS2625 · Mobile worlds: Borders, displacement and belonging

Overview

In this unit, you will explore socially and culturally diverse forms of human movement, mobility and migrant experience. This includes colonial settlers, permanent voluntary migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and displaced peoples, and formal and informal labour and love migrants, who move around the globe in ever increasing numbers. You will focus on the global inequality which drives much of this movement, examining global trends in mobilities, remittances, responses and interactions of states, host societies, diasporas and transnational communities around the globe.. The broad aim is to understand the diversity and implications of human mobility and movement and new border regimes that will characterise life in the future. You will grapple with how the perceived threat of migration affects social cohesion and security in the nation-state system, leads to racism and nativism and increasing anxiety, insecurity and inequality in a world changed forever by globalisation. We will investigate all these responses in an effort to decolonise migration studies.

Areas of study: Anthropology International relations International studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify and discuss the diverse forms of human mobility in the contemporary world;
2. critically analyse perceptions, responses, representations and social categories of migrants and human mobilities;
3. identify and explain the ways refugees, asylum seekers, labour migrants and transnational communities pose challenges to the nation-state system;
4. engage and respond to the latest solutions offered by researchers and theorists to the challenges of human mobility and global migration including decolonising migration studies;
5. read, think and respond reflectively and critically to global issues and challenges;
6. utilise developing academic qualitative research skills to locate, link, critically analyse and communicate theory and evidence.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.