Module ANT3024 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3024: Anthropology of Forced Migration
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:
- Introduction: Anthropology of Forced Migration, Key Themes
- Anthropological Knowledge: Ethics, Challenges, and Contributions
- Categories and legal frameworks
- Internal displacement and statelessness
- Humanitarianism
- Aid Regimes: Camps, Biopolitics, and Humanitarian intervention
- Refugee economies and urban refugees
- Gender and Forced Migration
- Belonging and Identity
- Possible Fieldtrip to RSD (Refugee Support Devon)
- Representations
- Beyond Bare Life
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | 124 | 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 | 22 | Eleven 2 hour seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 4 | Film and documentary screenings |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Preparing seminar presentations individually and in groups |
| Guided Independent Study | 74 | Reading and research |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Journal of Refugee Studies
Refugee Survey Quarterly
Forced Migration Review
American Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropology
American Ethnologist
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.
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford University Press.
Arendt, Hannah. 1998. The Human Condition: Second Edition. 2nd Revised edition edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bornstein, Erica. 2011. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
Fassin, Didier. 2011. Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Times. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona, eds. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Oxford University Press.
