Admission requirements
Admission to the Master’s programme Law and Society.
Description
Migration and cross-border mobility are long-standing features of human societies, but recent decades of intensifying globalisation, geopolitical upheaval, and environmental change have added new layers of complexity and heightened visibility to these phenomena. The emergence of so-called “migration crises” reveals the contested, politicised, and deeply unequal nature of global mobility today.
This course takes a socio-legal, multilevel, and interdisciplinary approach to examining how human movement across borders is governed, enforced, and represented. It explores how legal systems, political agendas, and social assemblages interact to shape migration patterns, governance frameworks, enforcement practices, public discourse, and lived experiences.
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students are able to:
analyse migration and cross-border mobility through socio-legal and interdisciplinary frameworks
examine how legal, political, and institutional actors regulate human mobility at local, national, and international levels
apply theoretical and empirical insights to real-world case studies and current debates on migration governance
explore the mechanisms of enforcement at borders and within migration regimes, including interception, detention, expulsion, and surveillance practices
reflect on the ethical, political, and human rights implications of contemporary mobility regimes
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Description: Lectures and Workgroup sessions
Names of lecturers: Amalia Campos-Delgado with potential additional guest lecturers
Required preparation by students: reading assigned literature and additional multimedia class materials
Assessment method
Portfolio of assignments both made before and during class (60% of grade) and Final essay (40% of grade)
Instructions on assignments will be available in the course syllabus.
Students are expected to achieve a minimum grade of 5.5 for the written essay
A re-take of the written essay can be retaken if the overall grade is below 5.5.
There is no retake for assignments.
Reading list
Course materials
Mandatory and recommended reading materials will be distributed via Brightspace.
Registration
Registration for courses and exams takes place via MyStudymap. If you do not have access to MyStudymap (guest students), look here (under the Law-tab) for more information on the registration procedure in your situation.
Contact
Coordinator: Dr. Amalia Campos-Delgado
Work address: Steenschuur 25, 2312 ES Leiden
Email: a.e.campos.delgado@law.leidenuniv.nl
Institution/division
Institute: Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
Department: Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society
Room number secretary: B1.14
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday and Friday morning
Telephone number secretary: +31 (0) 71 527 7260