SEHI6012 Short Taught Dissertation with Coursework

PLEASE NOTE: This module will not be available in 2018-19  

Summative Assessment

Coursework Essay 2500 words (25%)

Dissertation 7500 words (75%)

Formative Assessment

Individual presentations on short dissertation projects. Feedback will be given in person in individual dissertation meetings

Module Outline

Whole Nations Walking: Mobility, Migration and Displacement in Modern Eurasia

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were periods of unprecedented population movement, both voluntary and coerced.  Nowhere was this more striking than in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, where mass labour migration, empire building, two world wars, the population politics of Hitler and Stalin (among others) and the post-Soviet exodus, all contributed to seemingly unending flows of emigration and immigration.  At the same time, in an era of imperialism, socialism, fascism and often-abortive experiments with liberal democracy, the very act of movement was politicized in ways it never had been before.  The politics of migration were not only local but also transnational, with multiple international movements mobilizing around the rights of Jewish subjects to emigrate from the tsarist empire, the welfare of Eastern European refugees after both world wars, and later around the right of socialist subjects to emigrate. This course will explore the social, cultural, political and legal dynamics of migration and mobility across the Eurasian space since 1800. 

Indicative Texts

TBC

Please note: This outline is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.