This course explores human migration as a public policy area and considers migration policy making against concerns about the increasingly harsh and hostile migration policies globally. It asks critical questions about how places in the UK and internationally are shaped by migration and how migration policy making, and migrant lives, are shaped in return.

18 hours of timetabled on-campus teaching delivered in 3-hourly blocks, once per week, over 6 consecutive weeks.

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Policy Brief, 2,500 words (100%)

This course aims to foster social awareness of the immense impact of migration on places and communities globally and the urgent need for sustainable and just migration policy. By exploring case studies of (political, legal, and institutional) hostility in migration policy making in the UK and internationally, it provides learners with a critical toolkit and a practical skillset to appreciate and effectively communicate migration policy issues 

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

■ Critique the main contemporary debates surrounding justice and hostility in migration policy making.

■ Critically appraise the impacts of migration, and migration policy, on places and communities in the UK and globally.

■ Design a policy brief on issues concerning migration in the context of (political, legal, institutional, etc.) hostility.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment. Minimum requirement for award of credit for students on MSc City Planning is D3 or above. University standard regulations apply to students on other qualifications.