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Migration Studies at University of Sussex - UCAS

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2024 - 20252025 - 2026
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Course summary

Address the world’s growing diversity, driven by migration and mobility. At Sussex, you’ll work in a dynamic research community, guided and supervised by expert faculty from the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. You’ll benefit from our policy links with national governments and international organisations such as the International Organization for Migration and the International Labour Organization. Our areas of expertise and supervision include:

  • mobility, displacement and urban citizenship
  • the geopolitics of migration management and control
  • undocumented migration
  • border studies and detention
  • return and re-integration
  • refugees and internal displacement
  • forced migration and human trafficking
  • human smuggling
  • internal and international migration
  • the impacts of migration on cities
  • protracted displacement.
We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision. We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, if we need to make material changes, for example due to government or regulatory requirements, or unanticipated staff changes, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.

Modules

Recent thesis titles include: The perfect alternative to citizenship? Explaining the low take-up of the ‘long-term residency EU’ status – Germany as a case study; rethinking the retreat from multiculturalism in the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden; living integration in a diverse residential area: negotiating sameness/difference and navigating social spatial proximities; when the guests become the ‘hosts’: settled immigrants’ perceptions of newcomers; an ethnographic study of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong; ‘you have to break the Law to survive’: Asylum regime dehumanizing patterns and migrant resistance in Calais as a case-study.

Assessment method

Research project

Entry requirements

You’re normally expected to have a Merit (an average of 60% of overall) in a Masters degree and an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree. Your qualification should be in a subject area relevant to your research. In exceptional circumstances, you may be considered for the degree if you have a qualification in a different subject area. You may also be considered for the degree if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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Sponsorship information

ESRC funding is available for members of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research who apply through an appropriate disciplinary programme; this includes access to 3 interdisciplinary Quota awards. Our goal is to ensure that every student who wants to study with us is able to regardless of financial barriers, so that we continue to attract talented and unique people.

Migration Studies at University of Sussex - UCAS