Global and national frameworks facilitate and regulate human mobility across borders. In this course you will learn about the various ways that international actors and states manage the flow of people across international borders. Focusing on how migrants are categorized, we will explore the inter-related migration regimes that facilitate easy mobility for some, and highly restricted mobility for others. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the complex global migration system and the contemporary challenges to this system. Each session will include short lectures, reading discussion, and an examination of case studies.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
Michael Carpenter is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with BIG_Lab and a sessional instructor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. In addition to his fellowship, Michael also serves as a founding member and current Managing Editor of the Borders in Globalization Review. Michael has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Victoria (2017) and a Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from the University of Regina (2009). His research interests include borders, Middle East politics, global politics, civil resistance, non-state governance, and the history of social and political thought.
Oliver Schmidtke is a Professor and UVic European Studies Scholar in the Departments of History and Political Science. Since 2006 he holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics. From 2005 to 2008 he was the Director of the European Studies Program at UVic and from 2004 to 2006 he served as the President of the European Community Studies Association Canada. Since 2012 he has been the Director of the Centre for Global Studies and during the academic year 2016-17 he served as the Acting Vice President of Research. In 2016 he received the UVic Faculty of Social Sciences Research Excellence Award. His research interests are in the fields of comparative European politics and contemporary history, European integration, the political sociology of immigration and ethnic conflict, and the role of identities and collective memory in modern societies.
Dave Cowen is the Chief Executive 
Officer of The Butchart Gardens and Director of the YYJ International Airport. He helps lead a creative and diverse staff of over 400 in the delivery of a world-renowned horticultural experience. Dave is also the Past President of Gardens BC and served for many years on the Canada Garden Council.
Claude Beaupre is currently a joint Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Contemporary History at the University of Strasbourg, France. She is a BIG Graduate Student Fellow (PhD) and a Research Assistant and Conference Coordinator with the Jean Monnet Network on Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the (De-) Legitimation of European Integration. Her current doctoral research is on the influence of media in contemporary Canadian migration discourse. She has previously received Masters from York University in Public and International Affairs and from Sciences Po Strasbourg in History of International Relations. She focused her Master Thesis on the Canadian Media coverage of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe, 2015-2016. She also holds an honours Bachelor in International Studies from Glendon College, York University.
Lois Harder is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. She specializes in citizenship law and social policy and is the author of Canadian Club: Birthright Citizenship and Belonging (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Carmencita Duna is the Associate Director of the International Centre for Students at the University of Victoria. After completing her studies at UVic, she has lived in different parts of Canada and in Australia working professionally with immigrants, refugees and international students.
Kathryn Dennler joined the Immigration Knowledge Area at The Conference Board of Canada in March 2021. She has worked on immigration as a researcher, educator, and service provider for over fifteen years and across five countries. In 2020, Kathryn earned a PhD in Geography at York University, where she focused on how immigrants with precarious status in Canada cope with uncertainty about the future. Prior to that, Kathryn worked with newcomers in London, UK as a caseworker and advocate. She also holds an MA in Migration Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
This institute is required to complete the following stream:
