SOC222 SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION
| Course Code: | 2320222 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
In his forward to World Migration Report 2022, António Vitorino (the Director General, IOM) briefly portrays migration as “… age-old phenomena touching almost every society around the world. However, they have changed over time in important ways.” Therefore, “Examining these shifts in scale, direction, demography and frequency can help us understand how migration is evolving, and can inform effective policies, programmes and operational responses on the ground.” In the age of turbulent globalization, the contemporary phenomenon of migration (different forms of human mobilities beyond predetermined borders) has forced the redefinition of conventions on the notion of territoriality. This exigency has constituted a new set of tasks not only for political technocrats, who seek to accommodate this situation on behalf of nation-states, or humanitarian vanguards, who have been laboriously working on the tragic consequences of this crisis for the people of the world, but also for social scientists, who are responsible for collecting data/producing knowledge of the “shifts” which are accelerating the erosion of political borders all over the world.
Course Content
Introduction to theories/studies of (national) territoriality, mobilities and migration in the age of globalization. Methodological orientations and research strategies in the field of migration. Case studies on the material culture of human geographical mobilities, border and frontier (re)makings, social and political mobilization of diaspora communities, migration waves to/within/from Turkey then and now.
Course Learning Outcomes
This course is designed on this rationale and aims to assist its prospective participants to develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the phenomenon of migration by acquiring methodological imagination about how to approach its very dynamic nature. A large part of the course is devoted to discussing the theoretical perspectives on migration that have been developed over a historical period in the light of carefully selected readings. In this sense, participants can be expected to have developed considerable familiarity with theoretical frameworks on migration by the end of this course. Another aim of the course is to enrich this familiarity with some practical applications. According to their own interest in the field of migration, Participants will be expected to select some further readings from a list provided in order to develop a thematic focus on the phenomenon mainly in the case of Turkey. In the light of these readings, a research design is expected.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To correlate sociology and other social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To renew and improve their accumulation by following up-to-date publications and research programs in their fields | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be open to occupational novelties in order to understand social change | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To know and implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be aware of social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To understand social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution