MA REFUGEE STUDIES
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Our internationally recognised course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of global refugee movements, the processes which lie behind the search for protection and asylum and the diverse local, national and international responses to forced displacement.
You will gain interdisciplinary knowledge of the gendered, economic, political, legal, socio-cultural, and psychological processes related to forced migration.
You will also develop the skills to plan, organise and carry out independent research to inform professional practice and policy-making.
Learning about forced migration on this course is participatory, mutual and draws from real life experiences, including from our students, who come from diverse backgrounds and some are refugees themselves.
A master’s degree in Refugee Studies is a qualification that is internationally valued. Our students typically go on to pursue a wide range of exciting and challenging careers in community, non-governmental and governmental organisations. Those interested in pursuing postgraduate research degrees have been successful in gaining places and scholarships nationally and internationally.
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About this course
The core modules give you a wide-ranging introduction to forced migration and a detailed study of research methods. You will also have the opportunity to study specialist options on social, cultural, political, legal and psychosocial aspects of refugee studies and community development.
A distinguishing feature of the course is its emphasis on the lived experience of refugees and of refugee communities. You will develop a full appreciation of refugee experiences, achievements and needs.
You will study refugees from the point of view of the law, politics and anthropology and you will analyse their experiences on a global and local scale.
The course looks at how NGOs and the United Nations work with refugees and also how some people have sought to criminalise them.
The course will equip you with advanced skills in interdisciplinary analysis and research.
You will learn from the first-hand experience of refugees and people who have worked with refugees.
Your studies will focus on two core modules: Introduction to Forced Migration and Research Methods, and two specialist option modules in the area of social, cultural, political, legal and psychosocial aspects of refugee studies and community development. This will prepare you to begin a dissertation during the summer term for submission in September.
This course is suited to people who are working in areas concerned with human rights, legal representation of refugees, counselling, education, social and community issues and refugee welfare.
Minimum 2:2 Honours
We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.
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Subjects
- Global
- Human Rights
- International
- Mental Wealth
- Global Area
- Forced Migration
- Research methods
- Social Sciences
- Humanitarianism
- Development
- Research Dissertation
Course programme
- Forced Migration in the Global Area (Mental Wealth) (core)
- Research Methods for the Social Sciences (core)
- Policy and Practice of Humanitarianism and Development (core)
- Independent Applied Research Dissertation (core)
- Introduction to Conflict, Displacement and Human Security (option)
- International Human Rights (option)
- War and Human Rights (option)
- International Refugee Law (option)
- Global Development Now (option)
- Comparative Public Policy (option)
- Global Environmental Politics (option)
- International Organisation (option)
MA REFUGEE STUDIES