Course description
The course highlights the importance of an intersectional analysis in the field of migration studies. It explores a range of scholarly debates on how international migration and mobilities can be theorized and researched empirically using the intersectional approach. The course trains students’ ability to identify and analyse empirical material through the intersections of ethnicity, gender, class, generation, sexuality and citizenship and other relevant power axes. During the course, students are introduced to a set of research cases, examining for example, families and migration, gendered and aged aspects of migration, privileged and racialised mobilities, health and work-related mobilities, etc. Students will engage with important questions pertaining to transforming European migration regimes, belonging and social exclusion/ inclusion as well as to the emerging forms of mobilisation and civil society responses related to mobility and migration.
Requirements and Selection
Entry requirements
Qualifying applicants are persons admitted to postgraduate studies in social sciences or other corresponding areas at the University of Gothenburg or another university. A very good knowledge of English, both in speech and writing, is required for being able to take the course.
Selection
The maximum number of participants is 15. The course Applicants will be assessed and admitted based on the relevance of their PhD project to the learning outcomes. A good command of English is vital.
Doctoral students enrolled at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gothenburg and at REMESO at Linköping University will be given priority for admission to the course.
Educational partnership
Our Graduate School in Migration and Integration is financed by the Swedish Research Council and run by two main partners: the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University (LiU) and the Department of Sociology and Work Science (SOCAV) at the University of Gothenburg (UGOT). At UGOT the school also benefits from close cooperation with the Centre on Global Migration (CGM), the Department of Law and the School of Global Studies.
Other information
This is a full-time course with one week of on-campus seminars and lectures in Gothenburg.
The reading list will be updated and republished on this site 8 weeks before the course starts.
Link to website
https://www.gu.se/en/socav/doctoral-studies/the-swedish-research-councils-graduate-school-in-migration-and-integration/courses
Course syllabus
SC30017
Reading and reference list
Reading and reference list for the course
Department
Department of Sociology and Work Science
Subject
Social Science
Type of course
Subject area course
Research School/Graduate School
Graduate School in Migration and Integration
Keywords
intersectional analysis, migration studies, mobility, ethnicity, gender,