ESSAY:
Word Limit: 2000 words
• Essays should be prepared from a minimum of 10 scholarly sources (either journal articles, book chapters & books).
• There needs to be evidence in your assignment that you have drawn on these scholarly sources, for example, through direct citations which should include page numbers.
• In answering the essay topic students should draw on examples from western and non-western countries.
• Finally, apart from the topic covered in the essay question, students are required to draw on issues and debates covered in 3 other topics from the Study Guide.
1. The key drivers of international migration are economic factors.
2. Negative responses to the global movement people can be understood through the ‘securitization and politicization of migration'.
3. The emergence of multiracial and hybrid individuals has questioned the idea of an authentic, fixed identity.
4. "Critics often argue that the discourse of multiculturalism reflect distinctively Western circumstances or preoccupations, disconnected from the needs and realities of Asia" (Kymlicka 2005: 2).
5. "An influx of outsiders always presents a challenge to the way of life of the established population, however tiny the objective difference between the newcomers and the old inhabitants" (Bauman 1990: 49) Discuss .