Module Outline (Lecture Themes)
Having traced the evolution of international migration in the age of empire, the course focuses on international migration in a world of more tightly-controlled borders. Guest-worker migrations, undocumented migrations, brain-drain migrations, and refugee or forced migrations are considered, each illuminated by case studies.

Lecture themes:

• Introduction: who studies international migrations and why?

• International migrations of the post-Columbian period. The age of empires, 1492 to 1914.

• International migrations in the twentieth century

• Making sense of the changing scene

• Undocumented migration

• Brain-drain migration

• Western Europe: organised labour migrations and their aftermath

• Iranian Gulf: from regional labour pool to pan-Asian labour pool

• Southern Africa: the African guest-worker and the rise and fall of apartheid

• Remittances and returns, their effects on regions and nations

• Refugee migrations

Module Aims
To raise students' awareness of current problems in international migration, and to show how these relate to international political and economic relationships and their historical evolution. The suggested reading is wide-ranging, and students are exposed to the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Module objectives / Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should (1) be able to place any international migration flow within the general framework of international migrations past and present; (2) appreciate the forces which create a demand for international migration and the constraints which increasingly suppress that demand; (3) have a better understanding of the world and its peoples.