Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria
Descriptors
Cycle
Period
Year
Type
Credits
Official Master's Degree
1st four-month period
Second
Optional
6
Language
Galician
Teaching method
Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department
Socioloxía e Ciencias da Comunicación
Coordinador
Cardesin Diaz, Jose Maria
E-mail
j.m.cardesin@udc.es
Lecturers
Cardesin Diaz, Jose Maria
Espiñeira González, Keina Raquel
Rivas Quarneti, Natalia Yanaina
E-mail
j.m.cardesin@udc.es
keina.espineira@udc.es
natalia.rivas.quarneti@udc.es
Web
General description
In this module, the theoretical links between history and the sociology of migrations will be explored. Migrations will be analysed in the light of the historical migrations of Galician people to South America, to then analyse the main explanatory theories of migration processes from a historical perspective until nowadays. The main approaches, tendencies and theoretical authors in the field of international migrations will be studied.
Module objectives
1. To analyse the historical transformations that explain the great migratory movements towards America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
1.a. To study the impact of migration and return processes on sending territories.
2. To approach some qualitative methodologies and techniques of special interest for the analysis of these processes
2.a. Oral history: using personal documents.
2.b. Visual story: photography and cinema
2.c. Urban history: the city as context
3. To gain knowledge about different explanatory theories of international migrations
3.a. Historical perspective of international migration theories.
3.b. New theoretical frames in current context.
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