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Multiculturalism and Migration

Learn to analyse debates about migration and multicultural societies in the English-speaking world – models, numbers, narratives and the literature that voices them.

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Migration debates run permanently in every English-speaking country – and they are debates about facts (numbers, causes, effects) wrapped in narratives (who belongs, what the nation is). Tools: the distinction between voluntary and forced migration, push and pull factors, and the three models for multicultural societies – assimilation, melting pot, salad bowl/multiculturalism. The UK is the course's main case. Strong answers check the numbers behind the rhetoric and let literature – Shire, Nayeri, Kay – supply what statistics cannot: the inside view.

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