Global Migration MSc

The programme combines theoretical and policy debates about migration. Students are equipped with the advanced skills, methods, concepts and theories essential for the study of global migration and gain the opportunity to apply them in both general and more specialised contexts relating to the processes, policies and politics of migration.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (30 credits), a compulsory methods module (15 credits), five elective modules (75 credits) and the research dissertation (60 credits).

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Migration
• Issues in Global Migration
• Social Science Research Methodologies and Methods I

Students choose from a range of modules offered across UCL which specialise in migration. The list may include the following:

• Social Science Research Methodologies and Methods II (essential only if intending further research training)
• Thinking Space
• Migration and Urban Multiculture
• Mining Social and Geographic Datasets
• Globalisation and Security
• Gender, Generation and Forced Migration
• Ethnicity, Migration and Health
• Migration in the European Union
• International Human Rights Law
• Gender, Generation and Forced Migration
• Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
• Anthropology and Development
• Postcolonial Cultural Geographies
• Comparative Human Rights Law
• Globalisation in the Twentieth Century
• Equality, Justice and Difference
• Population and Development
• Economics of Migration (Economics prerequisites)
• International and European Refugee Law

All MSc students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 10-12,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, presentations, discussions, independent reading, practicals and workshops. The majority of modules are assessed through coursework although a small number are assessed by examination.