UCINTCER317.5 ECTSEnglishBachelor
Hospitality, Sanctuary, Refuge: Migrants and the “Right to Have Rights”
Faculteit—
NiveauBachelor
Studiejaar2026-2027
Beschrijving
Course goals
Canceled in Fall 2026.
After completing this course students are able to:
- Demonstrate a substantive understanding of key topics in academic and public debates about the history, politics and ethics of migration and borders since the late 19th century;
- Develop sophisticated analyses of the primary challenges in achieving ethical migration regimes at the global, regional and local levels;
- Demonstrate broad knowledge about civic organizations, social movements and/or individuals working to create and/or facilitate ethical migration regimes;
- Develop projects in coordination with such organizations, movements and/or individuals;
- Demonstrate skills and competencies pertaining to critical analysis, lateral thinking, and self-reflexivity necessary for such community engagement;
- Demonstrate skills and competencies pertaining to explaining to others the relation between academic scholarship and social challenges; working closely as a student with civic organizations and social movements; and negotiating with others in the process of creating a shared project bridging the academic and the social;
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
| Description of assignment | Assesses which learning goals? |
| 1,2,5,6 1,2,3,5,6 1,2,3,5 1,2,4,5 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
Content
Canceled in Fall 2026.
Our world today is marked by greater numbers of migrants, refugees and displaced peoples than ever before. This has enabled both new forms of diversity and the rise of nationalist anti-diversity politics across the world, targeting ethnic, religious and racial minorities. Such politics are committed to keeping out migrants, often through measures that are profoundly cruel, unjust, inhumane, and deadly. This raises the question: do we have an ethical responsibility to helping migrants and refugees? The course will offer students the possibility of developing an in-depth response to this question through Community Engaged Research (CER).
The course builds on a number of introductory questions: How did we get ourselves into this situation? What is driving migration and what is driving our countries’ policies of inhumanity? Why is this such a difficult and sensitive issue? What responses have there been from social movements, civic and human rights’ organizations and citizens? And how do these draw on and transform much older traditions of sanctuary, refuge, hospitality, and human community?
The course begins with a multi-disciplinary academic immersion in the topic. At the same time, we will begin workshopping community engagement as a practice. Together, this will prepare students (working in small groups) to undertake community engagement with an organization, movement or individual working publicly to address migration-related issued and the completion of a project (written, multi-media, performative …) in close collaboration with that social organization, movement, institution or individual. By combining academic study and community engagement, students will develop their own vision and response to the issue of migration, even as they will need to negotiate with the community organization/movement/individual regarding the substance, form and goals of the project to be carried out.
Format
- In-depth class discussion, based on multi- and interdisciplinary readings in the social sciences, humanities and sciences;
- Guests – (academic, artists, activists, NGOs) presenting their own work & engaging students in discussion
- Structured self-reflection
- Workshops on elements and methods of community-engaged research
- Structured community-engagement
- Presentation of projects – inside & outside of class – in a medium of choice (written, video, artistic …)
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