Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM161: Forced Migration in International Relations

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

The international refugee regime: emergence and evolution
International refugee law and refugee status determination
Forced migration and International Relations
The international refugee regime: UNHCR, international cooperation problems and the politics of humanitarianism
The EU dimension: the Common European Asylum System
Durable solutions: repatriation, resettlement and local integration
Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Environmental displacement
Gender and forced migration
Peacebuilding, state-building, transitional justice and reparations
Biopolitics and refugees

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled learning and teaching activity	22	11 x 2-hour seminars
Guided independent study	78	Reading for seminars
Guided independent study	200	Completion of coursework

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Betts, A. and G. Loescher (eds.) (2011) Refugees in International Relations (Oxford University Press).

Betts, A. (2009) Forced Migration and Global Politics (Wiley).

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., G. Loescher, K. Long and N. Sigona (eds.) (2014) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Oxford University Press).

Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford University Press).

Agier, M. (2008) On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today (Polity Press).

Agier, M. (2011) Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government (Polity Press).

Barnett, M. (2011) Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (Cornell University Press).

Black, R. and K. Koser (eds.) (1999) The End of Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction (Berghahn).

Chatty, D. (2010) Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press).

Dumper, M. (ed.) (2006) Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives (Routledge).

Dumper, M. (2007) The Future for Palestinian Refugees: Toward Equity and Peace (Lynne Rienner).

Goodwin-Gill, G. and J. McAdam (2007) The Refugee in International Law (3^rd ed.) (Oxford University Press).

Haddad, E. (2008) The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns (Cambridge University Press).

Hammerstad, A. (2014) The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor: UNHCR, Refugee Protection, and Security (Oxford University Press).

Hyndman, J. (2000) Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Minnesota University Press).

Larking, E. (2014) Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights: Life outside the Pale of the Law (Ashgate).

Loescher, G. (1993) Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford University Press).

Marfleet, P. (2006) Refugees in a Global Era (Palgrave Macmillan).

Marrus, M. (1985) The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press)

Nyers, P. (2006) Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency (Routledge).

Steiner, N., M. Gibney and G. Loescher (eds.) (2003) Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights in the 21^st Century (Routledge).