Module Code - Title:
HI6352
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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: STUDYING MIGRATION- ONLINE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module introduces ONLINE students to the key concepts and ideas of migration. It will examine the Irish experience of migration from a theoretical and experiential perspective, looking at concepts such as 'push-and-pull' factors, 'step-by-step' and 'chain' migration, as well as assisted and involuntary emigration.
Students will be asked to examine the factors and characteristics of Irish demographic movement in order to test the theories and explanations that historians, sociologists and geographers have offered. In addition, students will be expected to examine and critically evaluate primary source material, including emigrant letters and diaries, newspapers, official papers, census records and other material.
Syllabus:
This module is taught over 12 weeks, covering the following topics:
Introduction: scope and parameters of the module
Theories, laws and types of migration
Demographic shifts: estimating and quantifying Irish migration
In-migration, Out-migrations and Seasonal Migration: Internal Irish migration
"Push-and-Pull" and "Chain" migration: economic, political and social determinants for nineteenth-century Irish emigration
Forced - Involuntary - migration: deportation, penal servitude and exile
Winners and losers? Assisted emigration
Case Study: Irish emigration to New Zealand
Consequences of emigration for families and sending localities
Integration: attitudes towards the Irish in receiving localities, and towards the newly arrived in Ireland (Huguenots, Palatines, Jews and others)
"When I dream of old Erin": Mentalité, memory and the Irish Diaspora
Conclusion and final thoughts
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: Understand the quantification and estimation of net migration balances and net migration rates for given areas and periods.
Comprehend the standard statistics in migration studies and how these might be illustrated.
Understand the experience of integration and attitudes towards the Irish in the areas they settled in, as well as examining the consequences for families and sending communities.
Understand emigrant memory and mentalitié and how they and subsequent generations viewed Ireland.
Understand immigration into Ireland, looking at such groups as the Huguenots, the Dutch, the Palatines and the Jews.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: To identify and explain the key forces in emigration and immigration
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
n/a
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will provide a basis for future research at doctoral level because Online students will have been introduced to on-line and hard-copy primary resources, and will have research and written to post graduate level.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
A. Bielenberg (ed) (2000)
The Irish Diaspora
, Harlow
Patrick Fitzgerald & Brian Lambkin (Eds) (2008)
Migration in Irish History 1607-2007
, Palgrave
P.J. Duffy & G. Moran (eds) (2007)
Migrating people: planned migration schemes from Ireland
, Dublin
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
leanne.calvert@ul.ie