Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2391H1F L0201
Undergraduate Course Code: POL410H1F L0201
Topics in Comparative Politics III
Global Migration: Laborers, Refugees, Expellees, and Others
Themes
The course will explore the refugee/work nexus. It will examine the world’s largest refugee flows (from Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and others) to and within Europe. It will explain the causes of flight, the destination countries within Europe, and refugee lives in Europe. What led particular refugees to particular countries (Syrians to Germany, Ukrainians to Poland)? What were their experiences in the first countries they reached and through which they passed (Greece, Italy, and Spain for MENA refugees) to reach other destinations? The course will focus in particular on work: what sort of jobs do refugees take? Which sectors are they mostly found in? Are their skills recognized, or is migration itself a deskilling process? ‘Work’ here is broadly understood: manufacturing and service sector jobs, domestic work, and sex work.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...