The transnational paradigm represents a significant new perspective on migration under conditions of late capitalist globalisation, a context in which cultural interconnectedness and mobility across space are becoming more and more intensified.  This approach focuses us on the ways migrants, refugees, sojourners and other displaced and/or mobile populations ground their lives in two or more national fields - whether this be through mobility, social relationships, media, communications or consumption.  These links constitute transnational social and cultural fields that are paradoxically grounded in national territories and yet at the same time transcend them.

In the course we will address key theoretical issues in the study of migration, as well as deal with a variety of ethnographic and historical case studies in contexts that cross the borders of Southeast and East Asia, Australia and North America.

By negotiation: 6,000 words

Two hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial per week