INT2050

Mobile Worlds: Migrants Refugees and the Politics of Belonging (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Penny Graham

Offered:
Berwick First semester 2005 (Day)
Caulfield First semester 2005 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)
South Africa First semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: On successfully completing this subject, students should be able to appreciate the diverse forms of migrant experience in the contemporary world; identify ways in which refugees, asylum seekers, labour migrants and transnational communities pose a variety of challenges to the international order of nation-states; and critically analyse selected social categories through which 'people who move' are perceived and represented.

Assessment: Tutorial oral presentation (500 words): 10% + Web site or film documentary analysis (1000 words): 25% + Essay (2000 words): 40% + Class test (1000 words): 25% + Third year students will be required to provide a critical evaluation of website or documentary material, while second year students need only analyse the argument made by a particular site or film.

Contact Hours: 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week

Prerequisites: INT1010 & INT1020 or SCY1100 & SCY1200 or ANY1010 & ANY1020 or permission if the unit coordinator

Prohibitions: INT3050