This unit examines the changes that have occurred in the nation-state's understanding and management of migration. How does public policy seek both to integrate migrants and respect their cultural and class differences? What does racism mean in the contemporary global era? How might social exclusion be prevented? The unit relates these problems (and others) to changing theoretical viewpoints in anthropological analysis, particularly the rise of the transnationalist perspective. Two main issues of policy relevance are addressed: the methodological nationalism of social sciences that underpins migration management, and the uses of 'culture' in discourses on integration. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Chris Houston
Prerequisites: Admission to MAppAnth or PGDipAppAnth or MDevCult or PGDipDevCult or PGCertDevCult or MIntRel or 4cp in ANTH units at 800 level
