SEMESTER 2, 2017
Course Information

• Course Coordinator 

Claudia Bell c.bell@auckland.ac.nz

• Course delivery format

2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of tutorial

(Timetable and room details can be viewed on Student Services Online)

Summary of Course Description    Examines international migration in the context of the modern world, its impact on global cultures and its relationships with ideologies such as nationalism and racism. The focus is on the Pacific Rim region, but in the context of, and in comparison with, other parts of the world.          a

Course outcomes

E.g. A student who successfully completes this course will have the opportunity to:

• achieve a knowledge of issues, concepts and theories of migration
• critically interrogate current research approaches to migration topics

Weekly Topics

Part One: definitions, theories, global history

Week One, lecture Thursday July 27^th.  What is migration?

READING

Manning, P. and T. Trimmer., 2014. ‘Introduction. Modeling Patterns of Human Migration’. Ch 1 in Migration in World History. Routledge

 

Week 2, lecture Thursday August 3^rd. Theoretical Perspectives.

READING

Arango, J., 2017. ‘Theories of International Migration’. Ch 1 in International Migration in the New Millennium: Global Movement and Settlement edited by D. Joly. UK: Routledge.

 

Part Two: New Zealand

Week 3, lecture Thursday Aug 10^th. NZ migrant demography.

Policy, demography and history – migration, colonisation, settler society.

Pacific migrants in New Zealand. Guest speaker.

READINGS

Simon-Kumar, R. (2015). Neoliberalism and the new race politics of migration policy: Changing profiles of the desirable migrant in New Zealand. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(7), 1172-1191.

 Week 4, lecture Thursday August 17^th .  New Zealand Case Studies

Early Chinese migrants to NZ

READING tba

The Scottish Diaspora since 1815  

READING McCarthy, Angela, 2012. ‘The Scottish diaspora since 1815’ The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History edited by T. M. Devine and J. Wormald. doi 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0028

 Part Three: some categories of migrants

Week 5, lecture Thursday August 24^th 5: Labour migrants,

READINGS tba

 

Week 6, lecture Thursday August 31^st.  Migration and tourism

The overlap between migration and tourism, birth tourism-migratoin, OE, gap year, kiwis in London, Sunset Migration ( CB) sex workers / migrant labour for tourism. Entitled migration.

READING Bell, C., 2016  Itinerant Western Retirees in  S. E. Asia: emancipation through mobility Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2286

 

Mid Semester Break

 

Week 7, lecture Thursday Sept 21^st:  Involuntary Migration:  Slave Trades and Human Trafficking

READING:

Salt, John and Jeremy Stein, 2010. ‘Migration as a business; the case of trafficking’ Ch 37 in Migration: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. Edited by Steven Vertovec. London, Routledge; pps 60 – 82.

 

Week 8, lecture Thursday Sept 28^th.  The Refugee Crisis Guest speaker: Dr Avril Bell.

READING

Martin, Susan F., 2014. ‘The Problem of Refugees’ Ch 2 in International Migration, Evolving Trends. UK: Cambridge University Press; pps 58 = 92.

 

Part Four: Diasporas

Week 9, lecture Thursday October 5^th.. A taste of home:

1. Migrants and Food as a ‘taste of home’ – maintaining traditions.
2. Migration of food itself.

READINGS:

Helena Margaret Tuomainen, 2010. ‘Ethnic Identity, (Post) Colonialism and Foodways: Ghanaians in London.’  Food Culture and Society Vol.  12(4), 525-554.

Srinivas, T., 2013. “As Mother Made It”: The Cosmopolitan Indian Family, “Authentic” Food, and the Construction of Cultural Utopia. Food and Culture. A Reader. (eds C. Counihan and P. Van Esterik ), Third Edition, New York: Routledge, pp.355-374.

 

Week 10, lecture Thursday Oct 12^th : Researching migrants and diasporas

From arrival to resident to citizen: immigrant integration. Researching migrants and diasporas:

How has research on migrants-as-they-become –citizens been carried out? Examples.

READING Carling, Jørgen, Marta Bivand Erdal, and Rojan Ezzati, 2014. . "Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research." Migration Studies Vol  2, no. 1;  36-54.

 

Part Five: Development, human capital, transnationalism

Week 11, lecture Thursday Oct 19^th:  Migration and development

Migration as a strategy for development. Selective immigration. Case studies.

READING

Skeldon, Ronald, 2014. ‘Theories and Approaches’ Ch 1 in Migration and Development: A Global Perspective. London, Routledge; pps 17 – 40.

 

 

Week 12, lecture Thursday Oct 26^th.  Transnationalism ; ‘global citizens’

READING Tan, Sor-Hoon, 2017. ‘Introduction: Globalisation and Citizenship’ Ch 1 in Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age edited by Sor-hoon Tan. London; Routledge.

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Workload:

The University of Auckland's expectation on 15-point courses, is that students spend 10 hours per week on the course. Students manage their academic workload and other commitments accordingly. Students attend two hours of lectures each week and participate in a one-hour tutorial from week 2 of semester. This leaves seven hours per week outside the classroom to prepare for tutorials, assignments and the exam.

Deadlines and submission of coursework:

Deadlines for coursework are non-negotiable. In extreme circumstances, such as illness, you may seek an extension but you will be required to provide a doctor's certificate before the assignment is due. All late assignments without a pre-approved extension will be penalised one mark per day late.