Migration

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand the definitions and interpretations of different measures of migration and migrants widely used in national and international statistics and research studies.
• Present and evaluate arguments, explanations and theoretical perspectives, and discuss alternative viewpoints through written work.
• Compare and contrast spatial, demographic, economic, social and political aspects of migration in different contexts and in different population sub-groups.
• Identify historical and more recent migration patterns between various parts of the world, with particular emphasis on the UK and Europe
• Understand the strengths and limitations of different sources of information about internal and international migrants and migration.
• Evaluate polices that might encourage or limit migration flows, as well as various possible scenarios of future migration
• Analyse the impact of migration on both origin and destination countries especially in relation to economic, social, health, education and security.
• Describe and explain theories put forward for the initiation and perpetuation of migration
• Read critically the results of previous research
• Self-manage by combining your learning in lectures, seminar discussions and independent study

The material covers ideas from many disciplines. Migration represents movement across space, influencing and changing the environments of both the origin and destination locations (geography). It is both affected by and affects population structures and compositions (demography). Migration is often caused by individual or household decisions for gains in economic welfare (economics), whilst being encouraged, controlled, or restricted by states (political science). Migration involves motives for leaving and adaptation to new societies (social psychology), and affects social and cultural systems (sociology). These issues (and more) are included in the topics and discussions contained in this

course. In particular, we will be looking at the causes and consequences of migration, major population movements in history, current trends, data and measurement, migration and the labour

market, brain drain and remittances, life course motivations, social networks and ethnic population change, migration analyses, refugees and asylum seekers, and migration policies.

Teaching and learning methods

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Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

Arango J (2000). Explaining migration: a critical view. International Social Science Journal, 52(165), pp. 283-296.

King, R (2002). Towards a New Map of European Migration. International Journal of Population Geography, 8(2), pp. 89-106.

Geist C and McManus PA (2008). Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications. Population, Space and Place, 14, pp. 283-303.

Massey DS, J Arango, G Hugo, A Kouaouci, A Pellegrino and JE Taylor. (1993). Theories of international migration: A review and appraisal.. Population and Development Review, 19(3), pp. 431-466.

Zlotnik H (1987). The concept of international migration as reflected in data collection systems. International Migration Review, 21(4), pp. 925-946.

Raymer J and A Rogers (2007). Using Age and Spatial Flow Structures in the Indirect Estimation of Migration Streams. Demography, 44(2), pp. 199-223.

Bell M, Blake M, Boyle P, Duke-Williams O, Rees P, Stillwell J and Hugo G (2002). Cross-national comparison of internal migration: Issues and measures. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 165(3), pp. 435-464.

Textbooks

King R, Black R, Collyer M, Fielding A and Skeldon R (2010). The Atlas of Human Migration. London.

UNHCR (2006). The state of the world's refugees: Human displacement in the new millennium. Oxford.

Winder R (2004). Bloody foreigners: The story of immigration to Britain. London.

Castles S and Miller MJ (2009). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world. Basingstoke.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

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Repeat Information

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