Examine the history, context, and development of migration control by sovereign states around the world with this online law course from Kent Law School.
3 hrs per week
Approx 12 weeks
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Course 1
Law and the Framing of Migrants and Migration
4.1 (9 reviews)Explore how discourses and law frame migrants and migration and whether the notion of migration crisis is justified.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
4 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Introduction to Critical International Migration Law
- Welcome to Week 1
- History of migration and why people move
- An examination of terminology
- Weekly wrap up
Week 2
What constitutes international migration law?
- Welcome to Week 2
- Sovereignty and its impact on migrants and migration
- Three categories of migrant in treaty law
- Weekly wrap up
Week 3
Discourses on migration
- Welcome to Week 3
- Depictions of migrants and migration
- Scholarly analysis of migrants as threats
- Peer Graded Assignment
- Weekly wrap up
Week 4
Migration crises
- Welcome to Week 4
- The meaning of crisis
- The work done by “crisis”
- Weekly wrap-up
Course 2
Freedom of Movement, Refugees, Traffickers, and Smugglers
4.4 (5 reviews)Investigate the role, reach, and scope of border controls in generating modern forms and means of flight.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
4 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Border controls and freedom of movement
- Introduction
- Border controls
- The right to freedom of movement in international law
- The impact of globalisation on migrant movements
- Wrap up
Week 2
Asylum seekers and refugees
- Introduction
- Analysis of the protections provided by the Refugee Convention 1951
- Relevance of the Refugee Convention in the 21st century
- Wrap up
Week 3
Deterritorialisation of border controls
- Introduction
- A focus on visas
- Focus on interdictions at sea
- Consequences for migrants of deterritorialisation of border controls
- Peer Graded Assignment
- Wrap up
Week 4
Human trafficking and smuggling of persons
- Introduction
- Key provisions of the Trafficking Protocol
- Analysis of the Protocols
- Wrap up
Course 3
Law's Absence and Law's Failings
Investigate the extent to which international law protects the rights of non-refugee forced migrants.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
4 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
- Introduction
- The “discovery” of IDPs by the international community
- IDP protection needs
- The international response to IDP protection needs
- Wrap up
Week 2
Environmental displacement
- Introduction
- Calls for protection for “climate refugees”
- Securitising the narratives
- Wrap up
Week 3
Enforcement: Immigration detention
- Introduction
- Immigration detention as “crimmigration" and data from the UK and the USA
- International legal framework relating to detention of asylum seekers
- Scholarly debates on the use of immigration detention
- Wrap up
Week 4
Human rights of undocumented migrants
- Introduction
- Shortcomings of the ICCPR and the Migrant Workers’ Convention
- Scholarly Analysis of Universality Claims and the Person of the Undocumented Migrant
- Wrap up
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