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At the end of this module, students should be able:
- to better understand how migration has affected European society since 1919
- to clarify why different people (e.g. labour migrants, refugees, postcolonial migrants) have migrated within and to Europe since 1919
- to analyse contemporary immigration debates from a historical perspective
- to independently formulate clear and well-argued opinions concerning migration
1. Introduction: Ages of Migration
2. A new type of refugee? Russian refugees and the Nansen passport in the 1920s
3. Exchanging people: The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey
4. Jewish refugees in the 1930s
5. The devastation of war: Displaced Persons and German expellees, 1940s
6. Migration and the Metropole: ‘We are here because you were there’? Post-colonial migration to Britain, France, Netherlands, and Portugal, 1940s-1970s
7. ‘We wanted workers, but we got people’: The ‘guest workers’ who remained, 1960s-1970s
8. Migration behind the Iron Curtain, 1950s-1980s
9. ‘Jet-age refugees’ and the globalisation of asylum, 1980s-1990s
10. The creation of ‘Fortress Europe’
11. Migration in an enlarged Europe since 2004: the case of Ireland
12. The rise of the far right in Europe
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 101 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 223 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Continuous Assessment: Participation grade for seminars, including attendance | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Assignment: Four discussion posts on the assigned literature to be uploaded to Brightspace | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Essay: The papers should be based on primary and secondary sources and be approximately 4000 words | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Assignment: Group presentation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Feedback on the presentation and discussion posts will be given in writing via Brightspace. Oral feedback will be provided on an ongoing basis on preparatory plans for end-of-semester research paper assignments. Feedback on the end-of-semester research paper assignment will be given by appointment in one-to-one meetings.