Transnational Movement in the Age of Globalisation

Learning Outcomes

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
• demonstrate confidence and skill when engaging in high-level academic discussion and debate about the subject area
• communicate a high-level academic argument in the subject area in written form
• evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to migration, identity, globalisation and the transnational
• 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

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
• engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
• communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
• reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
• engage in high-level analysis of case studies and arguments

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.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, seminars and individual tutorials, alongside in-depth independent study.

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

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.

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.

Appadurai, Arjun (1990). Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. Public Culture, 2(1), pp. 1-24.

Textbooks

Brubaker, Rogers (2004). Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 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.

Vertovec, Steven (2009). Transnationalism.

M. Martinello & J. Rath, eds (2010). Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Adey, Peter et al (eds) (2020). The Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan.

Summative

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

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External