Global Challenges in Historical Context: Migration and Asylum

Module overview

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module explores the history of global migration from the ancient world to the present day, considering how and why regimes of migration control emerged. It will address the specific histories of refugees in Europe during the Second World War and consider how the status of asylum, sanctuary, and anti-immigration rhetoric has developed historically. The module will also introduce you to key considerations about the future of migration and asylum, with a view to helping you think critically about how challenges associated with such movement can best be addressed.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

a wide variety of primary sources relating to the history of migration and asylum.
a wide variety of secondary source material relating to the history of migration and asylum, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
the history of migration and asylum, in particular the development of regimes of migration control.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to the history of migration and asylum and its relationship to the future of such movement.
apply your developed knowledge, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered assignments.
undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
utilise and develop your time-management skills.
research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in assignments.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include lectures and seminars. Learning methods include close analysis of a range of primary sources and discussion of key themes and ideas.

Study time
Type	Hours
Wider reading or practice	26
Preparation for scheduled sessions	50
Seminar	12
Lecture	12
Completion of assessment task	50
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

David Miller (2018). Strangers in our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Harvard UP.

Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner (2020). Migration Studies and Colonialism. Rowman & Littlefield.

Lucy Mayblin (2017). Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking. Rowman & Littlefield.

Jose C Moya and Adam McKeown (2010). 'World Migration in the Long Twentieth Century’. Philadelphia.

Khalid Koser (2016). International Migration: A Very Short Introduction. OUP.

Assessment

Summative

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Essay	60%
Written assignment	40%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Resubmit assessments	100%

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.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Written assignment	40%
Essay	60%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External