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SCLG6700: Global and Regional Migration
2025 unit information
This unit explores key issues around global and regional migration, examining structural, institutional, ethical and policy debates that inform efforts to understand aspects of the global migration system. This includes issues such as migrant identity and identification, complex displacement, policy regulation and implementation, and migration imaginaries. Through empirical and theoretical lenses, this unit aims to analyse efforts to seek out solutions to migrations global challenges.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically assess the policymaking process at the global and regional level from a range of academic perspectives
- LO2. assess the relative weight of theoretical accounts of migration governance in understanding contemporary migration events
- LO3. examine and critically assess a range of policy materials including policy reports
- LO4. explain how migration governance/regulation fits within interdisciplinary debates.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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