Explore connections between people’s geographic movements and multi-scale processes of development and social transformation.
Taught by leading researchers working across the world, the course introduces you to core migration and mobility-related concepts, methods, and theories drawn from across the social sciences and humanities. It offers a strong foundation for careers in research and practice.
Course objectives
The course leverages a wide range of scholarly expertise to bear upon contemporary forms of human mobility. Its comparative and conceptual approach explores how movements within and across borders shape – and are shaped by – social, economic, and political structures and processes. These include inequality; security and border control; integration and community; urbanisation; race; and human rights.
Through the year, students review major debates and literatures on contemporary migration within the academy and public spheres. Esteemed and cutting-edge scholars offer training in critical analysis and inquiry, enabling students to contribute novel perspectives to scholarly and policy debates.
Students are asked to confront dilemmas facing policymakers, advocates, and officials in ways that surface ethical and empirical tensions. The course outlines the parameters of these debates and prepares students to question their conceptual foundations while collecting and leveraging empirical data and analysis to inform them.
Teaching includes a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, student-led presentations, essays, and library work. The MSc course is intensive, with mandatory readings drawn from multi-fields and all the world’s regions. Students should come ready to discuss and debate these texts and their implications for historical and contemporary debates. Class sizes vary between small groups to medium size lectures (generally between 5 and 30). All teaching is led by experienced researchers who facilitate active participation, provide constructive feedback, and foster peer-to-peer engagement.
If you have any questions about the course please contact the Graduate Student Administrator at the Oxford Department of International Development: admissions@qeh.ox.ac.uk
More Information
For full details about this course, including course structure, handbooks and student experiences please visit ODID's website.
The MSc Migration Studies is partnered with the Saïd Business School's 1+1 MBA programme. More information can be found on the Saïd Business School's page.
To apply and for more information on entry requirements, application deadlines and information about funding and costs visit the admissions pages of ox.ac.uk.
