121-026 The Mobile World: Migration and Tourism

Formerly available as 121-277/377. Students who have completed 121-277 or 121-377 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually 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.

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.

• have an understanding of the theoretical issues relevant to contemporary thinking about mobility in the modern world;

• have an understanding of the social construction of difference, mobility and a sense of place.

Written work totalling 4000 words comprising a 3000 word essay 65% (due at the end of week 9), a 1000 word tutorial paper 25% (due during semester) and a 10-minute tutorial presentation 10%.