AP/HREQ 2310 6.00
Introduction to Refugee and Migration Studies
This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine the multiple ways in which humans are forcibly displaced and dispossessed. Various factors contributing to the process of creating lives in refuge are explored, including the role of the state in regulating the global movement of bodies.
This interdisciplinary course introduces the central concepts, main debates, and legal frameworks governing refugees and migrants globally. Students will apply these concepts to a diversity of national and international case studies. Students will be challenged to tackle issues of human rights and global mobility from a multitude of perspectives, as policy makers, NGOs and refugees and migrants.
The mass movement of people – voluntarily or by force – is arguably one of the biggest stories of our time. How do we define the different types of people on the move, what are the forces driving their mobility and what protections and rights are they entitled to?
Ultimately, students will compare migration patterns across different regions of the world to understand the different drivers behind forced and voluntary migration. They will be challenged to think reflexively to understand the paradoxical, inter-connected and complex relationship between structure and agency that are behind human mobility decisions.
Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 2000 6.00, AP/SOSC1130 9.00, AP/SOSC 1139 9.00.