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We live in an age of migration. In 2020, the International Organisation for Migration reported that there were nearly 272 million international migrants worldwide and 79.5 million people who were forcibly displaced. This module situates migration within broader social, historical and political contexts. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of human mobility, it conceives of migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of development, social change and globalisation, instead of as a ‘problem to be solved’. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work, this module will consider some contradictions and continuities in the way migration has been understood in social science scholarship.
This option complements the comprehensive programme of the Sociology modules at the undergraduate level at SSEES by introducing the students to some central themes in the sociology of migration scholarship, drawing on examples of historical and contemporary migration processes in Eastern Europe and Russia.