PSCI 3608

Migration Governance

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Advanced introduction to the politics of human mobility and migration, including attempts by states and other actors to influence migration and mobility and emerging types of governance at the national, regional and global levels.

Topics

regional and global levels

Course catalogue

2021

Readings

 IOM (2020). “Chapter 2: Migration and Migrants: a global overview”. In Global Migration Report. https://www.iom.int/wmr/
 Castles, S. (1998). “Migration to Highly Developed Countries since 1945” in “The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World”, pp. 67-103. (Will be
 Hansen, R. (2003). Migration to Europe since 1945: Its history and its lessons. The Political Quarterly, 74(s 1), 25-38.
 Portes, A. (1997). Immigration theory for a new century: Some problems and opportunities.
International migration review, 31(4), 799-825.Castles et al. (2009). “Theories of migration” in “The age of migration”. pp. 25-54. (Will be available on ARES)
 Benería, L., Diana Deere, C., & Kabeer, N. (2012). Gender and international migration: Globalization, development, and governance. Feminist Economics, 18(2), 1-33.
 Castles, S. (2010). Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(10), 1565-1586, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2010.489381  Ch. 5 “Migrant labour in the economy” in Mavroudi and Nagel.
 Castles, S. (2004). The factors that make and unmake migration policies. International migration review, 38(3), 852-884.
 “Chapter 11: Recent developments in the global governance of migration: An update to the World Migration Report 2018”. In IOM (2020), Global Migration Report.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Department. Lecture three hours a week.

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