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 121-026 The Mobile World: Migration and Tourism

Note

Formerly available as 121-277/377. Students who have completed 121-277/377 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. Available in odd-numbered years, alternating with 121-016 Landscapes of Power.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Jane Jacobs

Prerequisites

Completion of 100 points of first and/or second year subjects including at least 50 points at first year level from approved subjects in your home faculty.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures per week, and ten 1-hour tutorials

Subject Description

Human mobility is an increasingly common feature of modernity. It is also an intrinsically spatial phenomenon of abiding interest to geographers. This subject examines a number of examples of human mobility in the contemporary world including refugee movements, temporary worker migration, permanent resettlement, diasporic and 'nomadic' communities, and tourism. The subject also introduces students to a number of theoretical issues relevant to contemporary thinking about mobility in the modern world including globalisation and the nation-state, the social construction of difference, mobility and a sense of place, migration and citizenship, geographies of exclusion and the commodification of difference.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.



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