121-277/377 The Mobile World: Geographies of Migration and Tourism

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Students who complete this subject should:

• understand the range of circumstances which might produce mobility in the contemporary world;

• learn the different forms mobility takes (refugees, migration, tourism);

• comprehend the implications of movement for citizenship rights;

• understand the relationship between migration and labour markets;

• relate mobility to different scales: global, local and national;

• understand economic restructuring and the rise of mobility (e.g. tourism);

• be aware of the link between mobility and processes of globalisation;

• comprehend the complex relationship between mobility, identity and place;

• relate human mobility to specific issues of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

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Human mobility is an increasingly important part of the contemporary social condition as is evident in a range of spatial formations. This subject examines a number of examples of mobility: refugee movements, temporary worker migration, permanent resettlement/migration, diasporic communities, and tourism. Each of these forms of mobility raises important issues to do with a cluster of theoretical themes: the social construction of difference in and through place, migration and the nature of citizenship, the 'demise' of the nation-state, globalisation, mobility and leisure industries, migration and labour markets, as well as identity and sense of place.

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