Global Migration and Cultural Diversity, Lectures

After successful completion of the course, a student

- is able to distinguish forms of migration as well as main forces behind migration

- appraises the multiple dynamics between migration and health

- is able to analyze multicultural encounters within health care

- critically assesses the global health work crisis and related mitigation strategies

- has developed skills to think and act out of the box

                                                                                                          Forced and voluntary  forms of migration are current and  challenging issues in an  increasingly globalized world. Various crises  force people to leave  their homelands as refugees. Polarizing social  conditions in Central  Africa and the Middle East feed into the migration  crises we are seeing  in the Mediterranean region. Migration has its own  demographics which  may affect the health of the migrant in many ways,  both short and long  term. Also multicultural encounters within health  care are explored in  this course.

The  migration of health  workers redistributes skilled health professionals  and contributes to  health-related disparities. The course analyses the  dynamics of the  global health work crisis and investigates mitigation  strategies, such  as skills transfer and local capacity building.

Lecture topics include:

- Magnitude and causes of internal displacement, immigration and emigration

- Forced and voluntary forms of migration

- Multiple dynamics between migration and health

- Multicultural encounters in health care

- The global health work crisis and related mitigation strategies

To be announced in the Teaching Schedule.

Compulsory for everyone:

Vertovec, Steven (2009) Transnationalism. Abingdon: Routledge.

In addition, two of the following books will be selected:

•    Foster, Robert (2008). Coca-Globalization. Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea. New York: Palgrave. 
•    Hylland Eriksen, Thomas, Sanna Valkonen, and Jarmo Valkonen (2019). Knowing from the Indigenous North. Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging. London: Routledge.
•    Lucht, Hans (2012) Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Three of the following books will be selected:

Escobar, Arturo (1995). Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Levine, Marc (2008). Heavy Metal Islam. Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam. New York: Broadway Books.

Liechty, Marc 2002. Suitably Modern. Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Peet, Richard & Robbins, Paul & Watts, Michael (eds.) (2010). Global Political Ecology. Routledge.

Tenhunen, Sirpa (2018) A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford University press.

General scale, 0-5

• SOC-M23
• YHTOPPIOAY Social Studies for Subject Teachers, Open University Studies
• YKT-A03 Intermediate Studies in Social Sciences