Module overview
The module investigates transnational approaches to migration, global mobility and diversity. It combines theoretical approaches with empirical case studies and methodological issues.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
- communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
- engage in high-level analysis of case studies and arguments
- engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
- identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
- reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate and apply your understanding of how established scholarly approaches produce different kinds of interpretations of national and transnational experiences, to an advanced level
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global case studies
- employ social theory in high-level analysis of social trends
- communicate a high-level academic argument in the subject area in written form
- demonstrate confidence and skill when engaging in high-level academic discussion and debate about the subject area
- evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to migration, identity, globalisation and the transnational
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around globalisation, migration, identity and culture
- how culture manifests and is disseminated through global exchange and encounter, at an advanced level
- working and thinking globally and across cultures, at an advanced level
- a broad range of high-level conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of transnational practices and networks, from a range of disciplines
Syllabus
Typically the syllabus will cover:
– migration and mobility research in historical perspective
– the effects of the 'transnational turn' in migration studies
– transnational perspectives on 'culture,' 'place' and 'identity'
– the different implications of empirical research on transnational networks and mobile populations
– conceptual and methodological issues (e.g. ethnographic approaches) in researching globalisation and migration
You will explore these areas, and the relationships between them, using case studies from different global regions. The module will thereby allow you to explore major political and social issues in the context of transforming societies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, seminars and individual tutorials, alongside in-depth independent study.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 24 |
| Guided independent study | 126 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
Appadurai, Arjun (1990). Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. Public Culture, 2(1), pp. 1-24.
Garland, M. (2021). The Jungle of Calais: a Place of Resistance and Monumentality. IMG Journal, 3(5), 110–133.
Basch, Linda & Nina G. Schiller (1995). From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorising Transnational Migration. Anthropological Quarterly, 68(1), pp. 48-63.
Wimmer, A., and Glick Schiller, N. (2003). Methodological nationalism, the social sciences and the study of migration: an essay in historical epistemology. International Migration Review, 37, pp. 576-610.
Textbooks
Brubaker, Rogers (2004). Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Vertovec, Steven (2009). Transnationalism.
M. Martinello & J. Rath, eds (2010). Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Lundstrom, C. (2014). White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Smith, Robert Courtney. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants.
Adey, Peter et al (eds) (2020). The Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Reaction paper | 20% |
| Essay | 80% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Reaction paper | 20% |
| Essay | 80% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 80% |
| Reaction paper | 20% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External