Study migration at Concordia

This course explores key concepts and paradigms of immigration, migration and diversity issues confronting nation-states around the globe and examines questions relating to irregular migration, refugee movements, economic migrants, temporary migration and population displacement due to war conflict, political instability, insecurity, environmental issues and the subject of integration.

This course will offer the intellectual, analytical and research tools to understand the history and complexities of forced migration and refugeehood and their centrality to political, social and economic change in global, regional and national contexts.

This course discusses questions relating to the politics of immigration in Canada and in other Western democracies. It examines the question of immigration from a variety of perspectives and disciplines centered on individuals and groups (as opposed to the state and policies): political science, public opinion, sociology and psychology. It aims at preparing students to work on issues relating to immigration in research activities and policy work by better understanding individual behaviors and attitudes related to immigration.

This course is both an introduction to social science research and a media critic course. Students undergo a journey to document a diversity issue in the media. The course is restricted to second-year undergraduate students in the Department of Journalism.

This course incorporates migration research and involves discussions around topics like precarious legal status and health, the lack of access to health care services, etc. Students are provided an opportunity to do a project on a specific topic.

This course is a one-year long course on research design and data analysis. Students can pursue novel empirical projects on migration-related themes during the fall and winter semesters.

This seminar aims to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of core concepts, analytical frameworks and theoretical approaches pertinent to the study of immigration and politics. Emphasis will be placed on examining immigration policies and dynamics in Canada, European Union member states, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.

This course introduces the themes of SOCI/ANTH 498 Global Migrations and Im/mobilities by focusing on people who migrate and their experiences. It experiments with alternative ways of analyzing the larger structures and power relations that organize migration through a variety of texts such as ethnographies, life-stories, migrant narratives, visual arts, film, social media posts, fiction (novels and short stories) and non-fiction (op-eds, newspaper articles and memoirs).

This course traces the inequalities in people’s capacities and rights to mobility and immobility (e.g. the obligation to cross borders vs. the right to work from home) through the histories of colonialism, the nation-state and capitalism. Starting with the artificial and unstable distinction between the so-called economic migrants and (political) refugees, which forms the basis of the immigration barriers of the Global North, students will critically examine how contemporary immigration laws and policies, border regimes and humanitarian logics of aid articulate with the global circulation of labor power, production of criminality and “the social worlds and subjectivities produced at the border” (Mezzadra and Neilson 2013, 17).