Welcome. I’m Dr. Matt Merefield, a historico-political sociologist working on trans-national migration and im/mobility, drawing on historical materialist and intersectional approaches. I’d like to start by sharing a brief transnational autobiography with […]
Intersectionality How does trans/national inequality work through combinations of different categories? Matrix of domination (Professor Hill Collins) Transnational garment industry, intersectional exploitation, forms of intersectional resistance Some key categories of intersection […]
“New Mobilities”? According to some globalization theorists: we are living in an age of increasing mobilities, and increasing connectedness and complexity conveying material goods by sea, rail and air individuals […]
Migration reasons, networks and scale (infra, international, global) What is a migrant? Do people migrate because of push or pull factors? Or sometimes Both? Does the political economy structure their choices/actions? Migration Networks […]
Welcome to this week’s two-part lecture on Chinese migration. Today we will talk about Chinese migration. We will introduce Historical migration patterns: Late Imperial, Republican, Maoist, Reform (and post-reform) eras. Internal and […]
Sociological and post/colonial stratifications of im/mobility Bauman (1998:86) described the stratifications of postmodern consumer society in terms of freedom, or lack of freedom of mobility. The de-bordered (de-territorialised) freedom of mobility […]
Welcome to lecture 6 on kinds, causes and responses to forced and coerced displacement In this lecture we will discuss: Definitions: ‘forced migration’ ‘refugees,’ ‘asylum seekers,’ ‘internally displaced persons’. Asylum seekers & […]
Prisons, like refugee camps and immigration detention facilities, are peculiar institutions that function at one end of a continuum of social and physical mobility and immobility. The prison works to forcibly confine […]
Reading Duvell. F and Jordan, B. (2005) Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice, London, Polity Press. Radhakrishnan, S. Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class, Duke University […]
Reading Ehrenreich, B. And Hochschild, A. (eds) (2002) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York: Henry Holt. Jacka, T. (2005), “Between “Rural Idiocy” and “Urban Modernity””, […]
DRAFT Human Trafficking: Sex Work, Gender, and Migration Welcome In the last few weeks of this semester focussing on globalization and migration, we have examined the idea that people migrate with […]
Welcome, this week’s lecture will look at: Islamic immigration & settlement in Europe & England & Wales Numbers, Geography, Origins Perceptions of host communities Discrimination, Disadvantage & rights Conflicts over Islam in […]
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