Migration & Conflict Migration & Conflict

Note: This program will end Spring 2012 and be replaced by Sociology.

The Migration & Conflict program is designed for students majoring in sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations, and related fields. The core course and study tours present you with both first-hand and analytical insight into the social, cultural, and political factors that underlie cultural conflict. In this European context, you will do research on phenomena such as globalization, immigration, integration, multiculturalism, struggles for recognition, and the limits of tolerance.

Core Course

The course pivots on case-study investigations of (1) the societal factors that underlie Europe’s often nationalist responses to recent immigration from the Middle East in particular, and (2) the social and cultural factors that make up the backdrop to the troubled relationship between Europe and Turkey. Through sociological analysis of these cases, you will develop a capacity to analyze and pass critical judgment on how cultural diversity affects social capital.

Study Tours

The study tours are covered by DIS tuition. They form an integral part of the core course. The short study tours will present you with first-hand experiences of the challenges of integration in a Scandinavian setting. The long study tour to Istanbul, Turkey will provide you with first-hand experiences from a meet with Turkish students as well as from visits bearing on the relations with the Kurdish “minority”, Turkey-Armenia relations, the Greek minority still living in Istanbul, the role of Islam, and the relation between religion and politics in Turkey today. This will add to your cultural visits to the breathtaking Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Top Kapi palace, monuments of Istanbul’s equally breathtaking Byzantine and Ottoman past.

Elective Courses

In addition to the required core course, you are free to select any combination of courses from the DIS curriculum. Please click here for a full course overview. If you want to learn more about Migration & Conflict, check out courses listed under Anthropology, Gender Studies, International Relations, Minority Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, and Sociology.

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DIS Student Bloggers

Wonder what it is like to study Migration & Conflict in Copenhagen? 

Click here to read Julie Kendall's blog!

The issue of immigration is certainly a hot topic in the US, but it is alarmingly so in Europe. I have learned how to look at challenges differently, and have met many of the people that are affected by (and involved in) migration, and have broadened my global knowledge.

Whitney Kinsesey Southern Methodist U.

Work with asylum seekers

As a participant in the core course Cultural Conflict: Immigration, Integration, and Recognition you will have the option to volunteer and work with some of those directly affected by immigration and minority life in Denmark. You could, for instance, choose to be a part of the co-production of an issue of the newspaper New Times together with a group of foreigners seeking asylum in Denmark under the auspices of the Asylum Department of Danish Red Cross, or to volunteer as an assistant teacher of English at a Muslim private school in an immigrant neighborhood in Copenhagen. In this way, you will get an immediate sense of the challenges and issues that migration and integration give rise to.

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