IR3065
Refugees and International Relations
2019-2020
30
15
SCQF level 9
2
Academic year(s): 2019-2020
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 9
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
While discourses of globalisation posit a post-national or borderless world and the withering of the nation-state, this is arguably not a condition that the 1 in every 140 people globally who are displaced would recognise. Refugees and other forced migrants raise important questions for dominant understandings of the state, security, sovereignty, citizenship, humanitarianism, intervention, and international regimes, among many others, in International Relations. This module introduces some of the complex issues surrounding refugees and forced migration in global politics today. While oriented toward the role that refugees and the refugee problem play in international relations, the module is inter-disciplinary in nature, drawing on historical, legal, sociological, anthropological, and philosophical works and debates. The primary goal of the module is for students to gain critical awareness of the role and nature of the refugee problem - as a legal, political and moral problem - in global politics. Students will gain an understanding of the history of the refugee problem, the practical functions and workings of the UN refugee system, the asylum process in the EU, and of emerging issues in refugee research.
Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass IR2006
Weekly contact: 1-hour lecture (x 10 weeks), 1-hour tutorial (x 10 weeks), 2 office consultative hours (x 12 weeks), 2 hours examination feedback in week 1 of following semester.
Scheduled learning hours: 21
Guided independent study hours: 279
As used by St Andrews: 3-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 50%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 50%
Re-assessment: 3-hour Written Examination = 100%
Module coordinator: Dr N E G Saunders
Module teaching staff: Dr N Saunders