Course Description:
The seminar combines an innovative online MOOC format with in-person teaching. The course provides a theoretical foundation in migration, as well as empirical findings on how people experience mobility. The seminar explores international migration, processes, routes, and barriers to migrant journeys. It also covers ways to promote the integration of migrants into superdiverse societies, while also considering the transnational processes through which migrants remain connected to both home and host. This seminar is part of module A1 in the first semester of the SEOS master's programme.
Course Objectives
- Identify and describe key theoretical concepts and frameworks in migration studies that explain the causes and patterns of human mobility.
- Explain how different forms of migration are shaped by social, political, and economic structures across an international context
- Apply theoretical and empirical insights to interpret real-world cases of migrant journeys, routes, and barriers to mobility.
- Analyze the ways migrants sustain transnational connections while integrating into superdiverse host societies.
- Kursleiter/in: Abdirahman Ahmed Mahamud
Semester: WT 2025/26