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.

Offerings

S1-01-CAULFIELD-ON-CAMPUS

S1-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS

Rules

Enrolment Rule

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Sara Niner

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Sara Niner

Notes

The unit has an optional domestic field trip component.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:

identify and discuss the diverse forms of human mobility in the contemporary world;

critically analyse perceptions, responses, representations and social categories of migrants and human mobilities;

identify and explain the ways refugees, asylum seekers, labour migrants and transnational communities pose challenges to the nation-state system;

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;

read, think and respond reflectively and critically to global issues and challenges;

utilise developing academic qualitative research skills to locate, link, critically analyse and communicate theory and evidence.

Teaching approach

Enquiry-based learning

Active learning

Research activities

Assessment summary

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment

1 - Quizzes

2 - Reflection

3 - Research task

4 - Research project

Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities

Lectures

Workshops

Workload requirements

Workload

Fieldwork

Learning resources

Technology resources

Availability in areas of study

Anthropology
International relations
International studies