Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course students will be able:
- to understand how asylum has evolved since 1945
- to apply theories relating to forced migration to empirical case studies
- to analyse contemporary asylum debates from an historical perspective
- to compare and contrast Ireland and Europe’s experiences of asylum with other countries and continents
- to complete research project based in particular on primary source material.
Indicative Module Content:
The module addresses such topics as:
- Who is a refugee and what obligations do states and societies have to provide asylum?
- Sources and methods
- European refugees after 1945
- Palestinian refugees in the Middle East since 1948
- Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s and 1980s
- Cold War vs non-Cold War refugees in the Caribbean
- Refugees in East Africa
- The Irish experience
- The refugee ‘crisis’ on the Mediterranean