Migration and Global Development MA
Master
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
Do you want to know more about the reasons why people migrate from the Global South? Is it because aid and development initiatives fail to meet their stated goals?
Our interdisciplinary approach gives you a distinctive and critical grounding in international development and migration studies. Learning from our faculty who have detailed and extensive knowledge from working in the field, you’ll gain an advanced understanding of the complex relationship between migration and development.
You’ll benefit from our extensive, world-renowned expertise in international development and migration studies. You’ll become part of the research community of the internationally recognised Sussex Centre for Migration Research, located within the School of Global Studies.
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About this course
This course prepares you for careers in the areas of:
international organisations and NGOs
local government authorities
charities with a migration focus.
Graduate destinations
90% of students from the Department of International Relations were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent School of Global Studies graduates have gone on to jobs including:
research consultant, Itad
policy advisor, Actionaid
researcher, Inkerman Group.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- International
- Global
- Dissertation
- Research
- Professional
- Critical
- Global Economy
- Humanitarian
- Transnationalism
- Analytics
Course programme
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
- Dissertation (Migration Studies)
- Migrants and Society: Global Transformations
- Migration and Global Development
- Research Methods and Professional Skills (Int Dev)
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
- Dissertation with Placement (Global Studies)
- Activism for Development and Social Justice
- Critical Debates in Environment and Development
- Knowledge, Power and Resistance
- Livelihoods, Inequalities and Rural Change
- Migration, Refugees and Wellbeing
- Migration, Rights and Governance
- Poverty, Vulnerability and the Global Economy
- Refugees, Displacement and Humanitarian Responses
- Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants' Lives
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Migration and Global Development MA