INT3050 - Mobile Worlds: Migrants, Refugees and the Politics of Belonging

Leader: Penny Graham

Offered

Sunway First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Why do politicians and citizens seem so threatened by refugees, asylum seekers and labour immigrants? Is it because such people-out-of-place challenge the system of nation-states? Mobile Worlds explores socially and culturally diverse forms of migrant experience, from among those know as gypsies, nomads, refugees, asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, guest workers, labour migrants, circular migrants, astronauts, settlers, diasporas and transnational communities around the globe. The aim is to understand the implications of human movement for emerging trends that will characterise life in the 21st century.

Objectives

As for INT2050

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 and INT1020 or ANY1010 and ANY1020 or SCY1100 and SCY1200 or permission of the unit coordinator.

Prohibitions

INT2050