Admission requirements
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Description
Migration is clearly one of the most important topics of academic, political and public debates. In order to understand these debates we need to look at them from a historical perspective. In current debates migration is often presented as a problem. In this course we look at how, why and by whom migration has been problematised in the last decades.
We analyse the moral panics the media and NGOs created about issues such as migrant illegality, prostitution, deportations, ethnic riots, criminality and terrorism, and the responses these panics generated in the political arena. Unlike some politicians and journalists believe, these panics are not new. Issues are as easily made important as they are forgotten.
After a survey of recent literature, students do research based on primary source materials such as newspaper articles, visual material (cartoons and photo’s), parliamentary papers or interviews.
Course objectives
Knowledge of current and older academic and public debates on migration
ability to do research with a variety of primary and secondary sources
ability to present research findings.
Timetable
See here.
Mode of instruction
Research seminar.
Assessment method
Two essays and a final presentation.
Blackboard
No
Reading list
To be announced.
Registration
via uSis.
Contact information
E-mail: Prof. dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover