The program serves as a venue to further deepen the understanding of young scholars
of the growing complexities of various issues and dynamics that are emerging in
this new age of globalization. Thus, the goal of the whole course is to produce
graduates who are facilitators for social change in a globalized world.
The program serves as a venue to further deepen the understanding of young scholars
of the growing complexities of various issues and dynamics that are emerging in
this new age of globalization. Thus, the goal of the whole course is to produce
graduates who are facilitators for social change in a globalized world. This is
a non-thesis track.
This program requires the student to finish 5 basic subjects and 3 units of elective
subject of choice.
Migration Studies is an interdisciplinary program committed to the critical
study and analysis of contemporary development in migration. As an interdisciplinary
program, it will draw theories and knowledge from the different social science disciplines
to understand the multidimensional nature of migration as a social process that
constitutes the interweaving of political, economics, cultural, psychological, legal,
health, and other social forces that impinge on people crossing geographical borders.
A specific focus will be on the introduction of gender as a crucial element in the
process as it explores the diversity of causes and dynamics that drive the different
forms of mobility, either for permanent resettlement or immigration, or as transient
labor migrants, or forced migrations, including emergent social forces that arise
and affect these migrant actors as they move from a country of origin to the sites
of settlement or employment. It will further examine the different institutions
and organizations from both the sending countries and receiving countries and the
specific configuration of management, policies, and accommodation of these migration
flows, and how migrants are affected by their institutional procedures and practices.
In particular, the course will have a special focus on understanding the conditions
of the Filipino Overseas Workers.
The graduates of this course are expected to have acquired a wider perspective and
knowledge of the nature of migration as a social process that will enhance their
participation in the systematic management of programs and delivery of services
to migrants within their own work involvements and settings.