GEOG 2133 - Global International Migration

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2015

At no stage in human history has there been higher mobility between nations and this has important implications for economic, social, demographic, environmental, political and cultural change. This course is designed to introduce students to the scale, composition, characteristics, causes, effects and implications of evolving patterns of population movement between nations. It focuses especially on the relationship between migration on the one hand and economic development, environmental issues and social change on the other, arguing that the relationship is complex and multi-directional. It introduces the concept of diaspora and investigates its increasing significance. While the focus is on global patterns and issues there is a concentration on Australia and the Asia Pacific region to illustrate the main emerging patterns. A number of theories which have been put forward to explain migration are investigated and assessed. There is a particular concentration on the role of policy with respect to both the migration process and the reception of migrants in destination countries. Migration is a strongly gendered process and the migration of women, its distinct causes and implications are examined. Student migration is another topic of interest that will be examined in the course.

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