LAW 2570 - Aliens, Citizens and Migration

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018

The criteria for membership in nation states is highly contested. Often the formal status of membership does not mirror the level of individual attachment to a place. This has led to problems of over-inclusion and over-exclusion of people within nation state communities. This course examines how nations and their communities construct the criteria for membership and belonging. It interrogates the formal legal criteria for membership through an examination of the many attachments humans have to nation-state, local communities and culture. The course focuses on Australia, but draws on examples from North America and Europe.

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Course Details

Course Code	LAW 2570
Course	Aliens, Citizens and Migration
Coordinating Unit	Adelaide Law School
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate Law (LLB)
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange
Prerequisites	LAW 1501
Assessment	Participation, Short answer test, Research Proposal and Research Essay

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Professor Alex Reilly

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Course Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Explain the debates and theoretical approaches to membership in nation states through close reading of set texts;

2. Develop an original topic of research and communicate in both oral and written form;

3. Conduct legal research and writing for a medium-length research essay;

4. Communicate effectively orally and collaborate to discuss and debate theoretical propositions, methodologies and
legal problems related to migration and membership; and

5. Critically analyse principles of law and their application.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Deep discipline knowledge informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1 accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)	1,2,3,4,5
Critical thinking and problem solving steeped in research methods and rigor based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment	1,2,3,4,5
Teamwork and communication skills developed from, with, and via the SGDE honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning	2,3,4
Career and leadership readiness technology savvy professional and, where relevant, fully accredited forward thinking and well informed tested and validated by work based experiences	2,3,4
Intercultural and ethical competency adept at operating in other cultures comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges	1,3,4,5
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate	1,2,3,4,5

Learning Resources

Required Resources

There is no textbook for the course. Students will be provided with a comprehensive seminarplan with required readings that follow the list of issues for discussion.

Recommended Resources

Recommended texts include:

Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration (4th
ed, 2013)

Crock and Berg, Immigration, Refugees and Forced Migration
(2nd ed, 2017)

Linda Bozniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemma of Contemporary Membership (2006)

Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens (1999)

Learning & Teaching Modes

There will be a two hour lecture and one hour seminar every week for 12 weeks. The sessions will be interactive with students taking responsibility for learning during the sessions. Students will be required to complete readings and answer questions prior to seminar so that the session is highly interactive, and led by student issues and questions.

A highly developed MyUni site with interactive materials will be available to students to enhance and support their learning.

Guest lecturers may be invited to attend if appropriate.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The course requires a combined weekly commitment of 3 hours attending the lecture and seminar sessions or a total of 36 hours of formal class time across the semester. In addition to the time spent attending the lectures, there is a requirement that students prepare for the seminars and lectures in advance. To actively and productively participate, students will be required to do set readings, answer questions and research current issues. Students should expect to spend 6-7 hours per week doing this. Approximately 10-15 hours should be spent on the research proposal and 30-50 hours should be spent on the research essay.

Learning Activities Summary

Schedule
Week	Lectures	Seminars
1	Community	Discussion of core readings
2	Citizenship	Discussion of core readings
3	Identity	Discussion of core readings
4	Allegiance	Discussion of core readings
5	Migration	Discussion of core readings
6	Population	In class test
7	Criteria for Cititsenship in Australia	Research presentations/core readings
8	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizenship	Research presentations/core readings
9	Citizenship Rights and Obligations	Research presentations/core readings
10	Political Rights of Dual Citizens - s44(i) of the Constitution	Research presentations/core readings
11	Revoking citizenship and deporting long term aliens	Research presentations/core readings
12	The future of Australian migraiton and citizenship law and policy	Research presentations/core readings

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due	Weighting	Redeemable (yes/no)	Length	Learning Outcome
Participation	Individual		10%	No		1,4,5
Short answer	Individual	Seminar 6	20%	No	45 minutes	1,5
Research proposal and presentation	Individual	Seminar 6	20%	No	750 words and 10 minute presentation	1,2,4,5
Research essay	Individual	Wed, 31 October	50%	No	3000 words	1,2,3,4,5

Assessment Detail

Class Participation (10%)

The class participation mark is based on contribution in the one hour seminars. The first 5 weeks will involve discussion of core readings for each week. The last 6 seminars will involve discussion of core readings as well as providing feedback on research projects.

Students will be assessed on the quality of their contributions. Students will be assessed on the basis of the participation in their best 8 seminars.

Short answer test (20%)

During the seminar in week 6, students will be required to answer questions covering material in the first five weeks of the course. The first five weeks introduce the key theoretical concepts in the course. The test is a means to ensure that students have engaged with this foundational material. Students will have 45 minutes to complete the test. Details of the test will be discussed in the first few weeks of the semester.

Research Proposal and Presentation (20%)

The research proposal is the basis for the research essay. It should include a specific research question; discussion of the research topic; a preliminary list of research resources, including an annotation of at least 5 articles most relevant to answering the question.

Essay proposals will also be separately considered by the course coordinator for approval as the topic which will form the basis of the major research essay component of the assessment. It is each student’s responsibility to develop an acceptable research topic. Students are encouraged to consider potential research topics and to discuss these topics with the course coordinator early in the course. The course coordinator will assist students to develop an appropriate proposal for the essay.

Beginning in week seven, students will be scheduled to give a 5 minute presentation and lead a 5 minute class discussion on their research topic during seminars. The presentation will provide an overview of the research question, the issue which is being addressed and why the topic is important for investigation. Where possible, the presentation should be interactive and perhaps make use of the AV equipment and handouts. At the conclusion of the presentation, there will be a 5 minute Q/A session where classmates will have the opportunity to ask questions about the research topic and offer suggestions for the project.

The proposal and presentation will be marked as a single item.

Research Paper (50%)

For the 3000 word essay, students will undertake independent research that follows on from their research proposal and presentation.

The essay will test analytical and critical thinking skills, including students’ ability to fairly reconstruct a position and argument in answer to the topic in issue.

Submission

The research proposal and essay must all be submitted electronically to Turnitin.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Courses for which a result of conceded pass has been obtained may not be presented towards the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Laws or the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws programs, or any postgraduate law program, nor to satisfy prerequisite requirements within any law course.

Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

Finality of Assessment Grades

Students are advised that Course Coordinators will not enter into negotiations of any kind with any student regarding changes to their grades. It is irrelevant, in any given circumstance, that only a minimal number of additional marks are required to inflate a student’s grade for any individual assessment item or course as a whole. Pursuant to the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policyand the Adelaide Law School Assessment Policies and Procedures, grades may only be varied through the appropriate channels for academic review (such as an official re-mark).

Moderation

In accordance with the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, course coordinators ‘ensure that appropriate marking guidelines and cross-marking moderation processes across markers are in place’ in each course. Procedures adopted by Adelaide Law School to ensure consistency of marking in courses with multiple markers include:

assurance of the qualifications of markers, and their knowledge of the content covered in each course;
detailed marking guidelines and assessment rubrics to assist in the marking of items of assessment;
sharing of example marked assessments at various grade bands across markers;
reviewing of selected marked assessments from each marker by the course coordinator;
comparison of the marks and their distribution across markers;
automatic double-marking of all interim assessment receiving a fail grade, and of final assessments where a student’s overall result is a fail grade;
the availability of re-marking of assessments in accordance with Adelaide Law School’s Assessment Policies and Procedures.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners

Students are reminded that all assessment results are subject to approval (and possible moderation/change) by the Law School’s Board of Examiners. Assessment results at the University are not scaled. Under the Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, students are assessed ‘by reference to their performance against pre-determined criteria and standards … and not by ranking against the performance of the student cohort in the course’. However, under that same policy, the Board of Examiners (as the relevant Assessment Review Committee for courses at Adelaide Law School) is required to ‘ensure comparability of standards and consistency’ in assessment. On occasions, the Board of Examiners will form the view that some moderation is required to ensure the comparability of standards and consistency across courses and years, and accordingly provide fairness to all law students. All assessment results are therefore subject to approval (and possible change) until confirmed by the Board of Examiners and posted on Access Adelaide at the end of each semester.

Student Feedback

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
Student Support
The University Writing Centre provides academic learning and language development services and resources for local, international, undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled at the University of Adelaide.

The centre offers practical advice and strategies for students to master reading, writing, note-taking, time management, oral presentation skills, referencing techniques and exam preparation for success at university through seminars, workshops and individual consultations.

Lex Salus Program
Lex Salus (law and wellbeing) is an initiative of the Adelaide Law School aimed at destigmatising mental health issues; promoting physical, mental and emotional wellness; building a strong community of staff and students; and celebrating diversity within the school. It also seeks to promote wellness within the legal profession, through the involvement of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Honourable Chris Kourakis, as the official Patron of the program.

Students can participate in the Lex Salus program by attending barbecue lunches, pancake breakfasts, knitting and crochet circles, seminars, guest speakers, conferences and other activities. Our Facebook page, website and regular all-student emails promote upcoming events, and have tips and information on wellness.

Our Lex Salus YouTube channel also includes videos on topics like managing stress, and interviews with LGBTQ lawyers and their supporters which celebrate diversity and individuality. Students who commit to 10 hours of volunteering with Lex Salus in one year can have their service recognised on their academic transcript and through a thank you morning tea with the Chief Justice and law school staff.

Student Life Counselling Support
The University’s Student Life Counselling Support service provides free and confidential service to all enrolled students. We encourage you to contact the Student Life Counselling Support service on 8313 5663 to make an appointment to deal with any issues that may be affecting your study and life.
Policies & Guidelines
This section contains links to relevant assessment-related policies and guidelines - all university policies.
Academic Honesty
Academic dishonesty is a serious act of academic misconduct. All students must be familiar with the University’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Academic dishonesty is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Academic dishonesty (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South Australia to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South Australia.

Academic honesty is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.
Fraud Awareness

Students are reminded that in order to maintain the academic integrity of all programs and courses, the university has a zero-tolerance approach to students offering money or significant value goods or services to any staff member who is involved in their teaching or assessment. Students offering lecturers or tutors or professional staff anything more than a small token of appreciation is totally unacceptable, in any circumstances. Staff members are obliged to report all such incidents to their supervisor/manager, who will refer them for action under the university's student’s disciplinary procedures.

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