SOSGEO4170 ¨C Migration & Diversity: Perspectives across Asia and Europe

Course content

This course will give students a broad understanding of the central issues associated with migration and settlement, using examples of Asian and European migrations to develop a more global and comprehensive understanding of the two largest migration regions in the world. Students will be introduced to current debates to generate critical perspectives on migration concepts, categories and frameworks that are often used in academic analysis and policy implementation.

Reflecting the contemporary reality of migration, the both temporary migration as well as more permanent forms of settlement are discussed. Topics covered include gendered migration for care work, precarity and middling skilled migrants, multiculturalism & xenophobia, processes of racialisation and second generation immigrants. The readings in the course prioritise elements of everyday migrant life in order to provide a balance to highly state-centric readings of migration. The course links issues of migration with understandings of contemporary ethnoraciality and diversity so that they can be examined as interrelated transnational phenomena. In these discussions, immigration status, gender, class and skill also emerge as key vectors of differentiation and analysis.

In engaging in comparative and relational analyses of different strands and contexts of migration, students will gain more nuanced understandings of this global phenomenon.

Learning outcome

By the end of the course students should be able to

• Critically discuss the problems with existing migration frameworks and categories.
• Identify different forms of migration and mobility as well as speak about difficulties in distinguishing between these various modes.
• Describe with in-depth empirical knowledge the different ways in which world regions deal with temporary and more permanent migrants and diverse ethnic populations. Students should be able to discuss the everyday implications of these policy initiatives for new migrant incorporation, as well as for older native populations.?
• Describe migrants¡¯ attempts to integrate and settle in their adopted country with particular attention to boundary-making practices in relation to state-led approaches.
• Discuss the significance of gender, ethnoraciality and social class for immigrant integration and social mobility.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

This course is not available for single course students.

This course is an elective course in the Master`s programme in Sociology. Students enrolled to this programme must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

The course is also open for students from the follow master¡¯s programmes:

• Human Geography
• Master specialisation in didactics for social science in the Teacher Education Programme (Lektorprogrammet) - please see the link for information regarding admission.

Other students may also, on application, be admitted to the course as a guest student if this is cleared by their own study programme. Admission as a guest student will vary from semester to semester, as guest students will be allotted any vacant seats on the course.

Teaching

• The course will be organized as lectures.
• The lectures are given in English.

Compulsory activities

• In class presentation based on a required text for that week (20min)
• Discussion of topic with course convenor
• Outline of paper (to be submitted by Week 10)

In the event of illness or other valid reasons, you can apply for a valid absence or postponement of compulsory activity.

Apply for valid absence from or need for postponement of compulsory activity

Examination

Term paper.

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail.

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Examination support material

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Language of examination

The examination text is given in English. You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

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