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SOAS University of London

MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and Intensive Language (Chinese)

Name: MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and Intensive Language (Chinese)
Price: £12965 GBP

SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

SEP-26

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Qualification type

Professional Masters

Subject areas

Diaspora Studies

Course Summary

The MA in Migration & Diaspora Studies tackles these crucial and timely questions, providing students with the skills to understand, diagnose and articulate what is at stake in contemporary experiences of migration and diaspora as well as contribute to the work of academics, communities, and activists engaged in reimagining a world beyond borders, and exclusionary modes of belonging.The MA in Migration & Diaspora Studies is a highly interdisciplinary programme taught from a Global South perspective. It is engaged and practice oriented and offers the possibility of creative assessments along with conventional assessment forms. Students enrolled in the programme have the unique opportunity to gain work relevant experience while studying, through the module ‘From Theory to Practice & Back: Work Placements in Migration Research’.Overall, this MA programme is committed to the belief that knowledge and practice produced by diasporas, migrants’ grassroots organisations, activists, practitioners and artists should be intertwined with academic knowledge, and validated as part of a real decolonising effort.

Modules

African and Asian Diasporas in the Contemporary World: Cultures of Resistance and the Dissolution of Boundaries (15 Credits) - Core

Scholars of diaspora have argued that diaspora has enabled the conceptualisation of communities beyond reified and essentialist ethnic or racial configurations. Central notions associated with diaspora are those of imagination, consciousness, subjectivity, recognition. As James Clifford long ago noted, diaspora functions as a utopic/dystopic vision to think of political subjectivities and communities not as epiphenomena of nation-states but as springboard for de-territorialised formations. Yet, many diasporic communities are still trapped in (albeit ever transforming) colonial forms of power and material dispossession, not only of their identity and culture, but also of their land and resources. Against this background the course offers an exploration of the formation of diasporas and their cultural politics. It looks at how diasporic subjectivities are formed through gendered aesthetic practices and performances, which can take on and signify religious, cultural, political meanings, which are in turn constantly negotiated, hybridised and re-fashioned across bodies, times and spaces.

African and Asian Diasporas in the Contemporary World: Migration, Space, Identities (15 Credits) - Core

Ethnographic Research Methods (15 Credits) - Core

Intensive Chinese (Summer Abroad) (45 Credits)

Intensive Elementary Chinese (PG) (60 Credits)

Chinese 4 (PG) (30 Credits)

Dissertation (60 Credits)

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£12,965

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Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£25,320

Entry requirements

We will consider all applications with a 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher in a social science or humanities subject. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.

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At SOAS University of London, postgraduate students are encouraged to challenge the status quo and think globally. SOAS is the leading higher education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East. Postgraduate courses are taught by respected academics engaged in ground-breaking fieldwork and research. The work of researchers at SOAS influences both government policy and the lives of individuals...more

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