Curriculum committee submission

School of International Policy and Governance

Balsillie School of International Affairs

IP623: Special Topics in International Economic Relations: Migration and Development

Professor Jonathan Crush

http://www.cigionline.org/person/jonathan-crush

Contact Details

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Office Hours: BSIA 318 (by appointment)

Course Overview
The course focuses on the relationship between globalization, human mobility and economic development. The course is designed to (a) take you inside contemporary policy debates on the role of migration in economic development and to enable you to take critical positions on key theoretical and governance issues; (b) explore the reasons for the recent upsurge of international interest in migration as a development issue in international agencies, national governments, civil society and amongst academics. This affords an opportunity to critique the dominant discourse on the migration-development nexus emanating from the North and to examine competing discourses from the South. The unusual degree of academic involvement in the construction of ideas and policy prescriptions will become clear; (c) critically examine key recurrent themes in academic and policy debate about the migration-development relationship. The course will also explore several "silences" in that debate (e.g. South-South migration, migrant rights); and (d) have the opportunity to critically examine the relationship between migration and development in a particular national context of interest to you.