This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The module examines the complex sets of laws and policies that inform the varied field of migration law with regard to the variety of its subjects. In particular, the module examines the context and history of controlling migration internationally; the role of the concept and practices of state sovereignty in conjunction with the development of international protections and regulations; the critical evaluation of international labour migration law, international asylum and refugee law, forced labour and human trafficking. In addition, the module offers, each year, a series of case studies on particularly prevalent contemporary issues such as environmental displacement, internal displacement, extraterritoriality and indefinite detention.
Contact hours: 20
Private study hours: 180
Total study hours: 200
Canterbury - LLM in (Specialisation); PG Diploma in (Specialisation); PG Certificate in Law
Brussels - LLM in (Specialisation); PG Diploma in (Specialisation); PG Certificate in Law
Main assessment methods
Essay, 5000 words (100%)
Reassessment methods
Reassessment instrument, 100% Coursework.
• B. Chinmi, International Refugee Law: A Reader (2000)
• E. Feller, V. Türk and F. Nicholson (eds), Refugee Protection in International Law (2003)
• M. Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Responses to Refugees Cambridge University Press (2004)
• G. Goodwin Gill, & McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (3rd ed., 2007)
• T. Kushner and Knox, K. Refugees In An Age Of Genocide: Global, National And Local Perspectives During The Twentieth Century, Frank Cass, London (1999)
• B. Opeskin et al, Foundations of International Migration Law, (2012)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an extensive knowledge and understanding of the main sources of international migration law.
2. Demonstrate an extensive knowledge and understanding of the systems for the international protection of migrants, refugees and asylum
seekers.
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the main international treaties which relate to migration.
4. Critically evaluate the political and philosophical discourses attached to contemporary international migration.
5. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the theoretical and interdisciplinary critiques of international migration law.
6. Locate and utilise complex primarily legal and comparative materials to formulate a complex legal argument concerning state practice.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Identify and critically evaluate relevant issues from complex factual situations;
2. Conduct sustained and detailed independent legal research using a range of resources, both paper and electronic;
3. Summarise detailed and complex bodies of information concisely and accurately;
4. Present information and arguments in written form, in accordance with academic conventions, and appropriately to the intended
readership;
5. Critically evaluate law both doctrinally and in terms of its socio-economic, theoretical and political consequences.
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