Subsections
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- Migration and mobility are the defining characteristics of contemporary society. According to UN data (2010) about 1/6th of the worlds population is on the move. This course seeks to understand human mobitliy from a social, economic and political perspective.
- A brief spatial history of Human mobitliy from prehisoty to contemporary times.
- Theories of migration, Push and Pull factors, volunatry versus involuntary migration, internal migation and immigration.
- Understanding migration in the context of relationship between people, the state and identity.
- Immigration, remitances, brain drain, diaspora.
- Race and migration.
- Labour, working class and migration.
- Gender and migration, Feminization of migration. Encampment and international refugees.
- Disaster induced displacement, urbanization induced displacement, experiencing displacement.
- Travel writings, diasporic fiction, memoirs, films and narratives.
- Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan,Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future, Princeton University Press. (2011)
- Peggy Levitt, The Transnational Villagers, University of California Press. (2001).
- Portes, Alejandro & Josh DeWind (eds), Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Berghahn Books. (2007).
- Cathy A. Small, Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs, Cornell University Press. (1997).
- Miriam Davidson, Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the US-Mexico Border, University of Arizona Press. (2000)
- Salazar-Parrenas, R, Servants of Globalization. Women, Migration and Domestic Work, Stanford University Press. (2001).
- Ong, Aihwa, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Durham: Duke University Press. (1999).
- Baldassar, L & Merla, L. (eds),Transnational Families, Migration and the circulation of Care, London. Routledge. (2013).
- Lavie, S. & Swedenburg, T., Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity, London: Duke University Press.(1996).
