Module details for 2021/22.

30 credits

FHEQ Level 7 (Masters)

Module Outline

Our contemporary world has been characterized as living through an age of migration, with an unprecedented number and diversity of people on the move around the world. The term migrant does scant justice to the range of people or the challenges faced by people leaving their home countries to make new lives elsewhere. Migrants wellbeing in crucially influenced by the circumstances in which they leave their home countries and try to resettle. This module will introduce students to the dynamics of migration in the contemporary world and implications for migrants wellbeing and for the development of health and welfare receiving societies. It will begin by introducing salient theories of migration e.g. push-pull, historical structural theories, transnational theories and migration systems theories, and explore their implications for research. Students will be presented with a categorisation of contemporary migration, including forms of voluntary and forced migration and the specific implications of these forms of migration for migrants wellbeing. These will be examined further through a range of case studies, drawing on first hand research of migrant reception in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Brazil, Malta and across Scandinavia. The first portion of the module will be largely devoted to examining migrants needs and circumstances, the particular health and social care issues that may affect them and the challenges they face in the resettlement processes. The second portion will focus primarily on how receiving countries have responded to the perceived needs of migrants in terms, for example, of the development of ‘culturally appropriate’ health and social care services, special projects and a range of health and welfare interventions. The third part of the module will examine evidence of ‘good practice’ in relation to services aimed at enhancing migrants’ wellbeing and examine the potential for transferring good practice from one country to another.

Assessment is structured in such a way as to incorporate formative feedback. Students will complete a concept note and the assessment of which will include formative feedback in order to help students in planning their essay.

Module learning outcomes

Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of key features of contemporary migration including different categories of migrant

Demonstrate systematic understanding of the particular challenges migrants and refugees may face in terms of their wellbeing

Demonstrate a conceptual and analytical understanding of key theories of migration and assess the implications of different theoretical approaches for illuminating issues of migrant wellbeing

Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of societal responses to migrants in different receiving countries based on concrete case studies

Demonstrate conceptual and analytical understanding of components of good practice in services for migrants, as well as practical knowledge, including of a range of humanitarian interventions addressed to specific migrant groups

Demonstrate a conceptual, analytical, and practical understanding of the key issues in the transfer of good practices in services addressing the wellbeing of migrants

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Prof Charles Watters

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