Migration and Integration

Admission requirements

Not applicable.

Description

This course offers an introduction to migration history and is obligatory for students who are completing the MA in Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence. The course will provide a forum for extensive debate about various theoretical concepts and analytical tools relating to migration history and immigration more generally. Themes such as identity, gender, integration, the second generation, transnationalism, migrant networks, colonial legacies, forced migration, asylum and anti-immigration will all feature in the assigned literature, which will consist mostly of journal articles. Migration will be discussed at different times in the course from urban, national, European and global perspectives. Students will be expected to discuss what history can contribute to migration studies in seminar debates and will be encouraged to suggest future research agendas for migration history to consider.

Course objectives

General learning objectives
The student has acquired:

• 1. The ability to analyse and evaluate literature with a view to addressing a particular historical problem;
• 2. The ability to give a clear and well-founded oral and written report on research results meeting the criteria of the discipline;
• 3. The ability to participate in current debates in the specialisation;
• 4. (ResMA only:) The ability to participate in a discussion of the theoretical foundations of the discipline.

Learning objectives, pertaining to the specialisation

• 5. Thorough knowledge and comprehension of one of the specialisations or subspecialisations as well as of the historiography of the specialisation, focusing particularly on the following:
  • in the specialisation Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence: the manner in which migrations (of people, goods and ideas) between and within states have led to shifts (in cohesion, ethnic composition, policies, imaging, culture, and power relations) in the period 1600-2000, with a focus on (urban) networks (within and across borders).
• 6. (ResMA only): Thorough knowledge and comprehension of the theoretical foundation of the discipline and of its position vis-à-vis other disciplines.

Learning objectives, pertaining to this Literature Seminar

• 7. Compare and contrast different experiences of migration and integration
• 8. Analyse contemporary immigration and integration debates from an historical perspective
• 9. Apply migration theory to empirical case studies
• 10. Development of analytical skills
• 11. Development of communication and debating skills

Timetable

See Timetable and deadlines History

Mode of instruction

• Seminar

Course Load

Total course load: 10 EC x 28 hrs = 280 hours

• Classes: 12 × 2 hours: 24 hours

• Time needed for reading per week: 12 × 8 hours: 96 hours

• Time needed for writing and/or presentation preparation per week: 12 × 8 hours: 96 hours

• Final paper: 64 hours

Assessment method

Assessment

• Essay (ca. 7000 words)
  Measured learning objectives: 1-3, 5, 7-11 (ResMa: 1-11)

• Assignment 1 (Two oral presentations; including providing of constructive academic feedback)
  Measured learning objectives: 1-3, 10, 11

• Assignment 2 (Seminar participation)
  Measured learning objectives: 1-3, 5, 7-11

• Assignment 3 (Short written assignments)
  Measured learning objectives: 1-2, 7-10

Weighing
Essay: 50%
Oral presentations: 20%
Seminar Participation: 10%
Short written assignments: 20%

The final grade for the course is established by determining the weighted average with the additional requirement that the written paper must always be sufficient.

Resit
Should the overall mark be unsatisfactory, the paper is to be revised after consultation with the instructor.

Blackboard

The course outline and seminar readings (or links to the literature) will be posted on Blackboard. Assignments will be submitted via Blackboard.

Reading list

Most of the readings will take the form of articles that can be downloaded from the university library. The list will be distributed in advance of the first meeting via Blackboard.

Registration

Via uSis

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Not applicable.

Contact

dhr. Dr. I.A. Glynn

Remarks

None