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University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology

The University of Hong Kong's Department of Sociology offers a range of programs for students interested in pursuing a career in sociology.

Programmes

• Undergraduate
  • Criminology Major/Minor
  • Media & Cultural Studies Major/Minor
  • Sociology Major/Minor
• Taught postgraduate
  • MSocSc Criminology
  • MSocSc Media, Culture & Creative Cities
  • MSocSc Sociology
• MPhil / PhD Sociology

Research

• Research Projects
• Research Clusters
• Centre for Criminology
• Global Society and Sustainability Lab

Courses

The department offers various courses, including:

• CCGL9015: Globalization and migration
  • Offer semester: 1st semester
  • Lecture day: Wednesday
  • Lecture time: 17:00 - 18:50
  • Lecture venue: KB223
  • Credits awarded: 6

Course Description

This course explores the role of globalization in shaping diverse forms of migration. Key debates about cross-border mobilities provide a framework for understanding contestations around legality and ‘illegality’ in migration, national sovereignty, citizenship and belonging, and how these challenge our conventional understanding of migration across the global North South divide.

Course Learning Outcomes

On completing the course, students will be able to:

1. Identify types of globalized human flows, and analyse their causes, motivations, nature, issues and debates in discourses concerning migration, national belonging, identity politics, and national sovereignty.
2. Demonstrate understanding of globalization in producing diverse forms of labour and dispossessed populations who migrate, and engage with the moral and political discourses shaping people flows across borders.
3. Participate as active members of a diverse global community through exposure to key issues and debates in transnational mobilities that they will be encouraged to explore in their assignments.
4. Engage in intensive group activities with their classmates in seeking solutions to existing problems in human flows.

Assessment

• Tutorial participation: 25%
• Resources reflection: 25%
• Group project: 30% (20% group mark + 10% individual)
• Take-home test (open book): 20%

Required Reading

• CLASS ONE/ Introduction: No readings this week.
• CLASS TWO/ Manufacturing illegality:
  • Pollock, J. (2010). The migrant worker, the refugee, and the trafficked person: What’s in a label? Alliance News, 33(July), 19-22.
  • Price, M. & Rojas, G. (2021). The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the DACAmented: visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(20).
• CLASS THREE/ Smugglers and Smuggling:
  • Scot Watson. 2015. The Criminalization of Human and Humanitarian Smuggling, Archives, 1(1)
• CLASS FOUR/ Globalized labor:
  • Mathews, G. & Yang, Y. (2012). How Africans pursue low-end globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41(2), 95-120.
  • Gorden Mathew: Chung King Mansion: A Center of Low End Globalization, Ethnology 46, 2: 168-183.
• CLASS FIVE/ Globalized Labor:
  • One of the following:
    • Marina De Regt, 2010. Ways to Comes, Ways to Leave: Gender, Mobility, and Il/Legality Among Ethiopian Domestic Worers in Yemen. Gender and Society 24, 2
    • Carnay, N.U. (2017). Pictures From the Inside: Investigating Living Accommodation of Women Migrant Domestic Workers Towards Advocacy and Action. Hong Kong: Mission for Migrant Workers.
    • Pande, A. (2012). From “balcony talk” and “practical prayers” to illegal collectives: Migrant domestic workers and meso-level resistances in Lebanon. Gender & Society, 26(3), 382-405.
• CLASS SIX/ Refugees and asylum-seekers:
  • Both of the following:
    • Showler, P. (2007). Bridging the Grand Canyon: Deciding refugee claims. Queen’s Quarterly: A Canadian Review, 114(1), 29-43.
    • Vecchio, F. (2015). Chapter 4: Establishing life at the destination. In Asylum-seeking and the global city. Oxon: Routledge.
• CLASS SEVEN/ Criminology of mobility:
  • Stumpf, J. (2006). The crimmigration crisis: Immigrants, crime and sovereign power. American University Law Review, 56(2), 367-419. (Only the section ‘IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL LAW CONVERGE’ on pages 379-395 is required)
• CLASS EIGHT/ Death at the global frontier:
  • One of the following:
    • De Leon, J. (2015). Chapter 7: The Crossing (pp.167-202) In The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. Oakland: University of California Press.
    • Weber, L. & Pickering, S. (2011). Chapter 5: Suspicious deaths (pp. 119-141). In Globalization and borders: Deaths at the global frontier. Oxon: Routledge.
• CLASS NINE/ Sex work, gender, sexuality and border crossings:
  • One of the following:
    • Hoang, K. K. (2014). Flirting with capital: Negotiating perceptions of pan-Asian ascendency and Western decline in global sex work. Social Problems, 61(4), 507-529.
    • Pickering, S., & Ham, J. (2014). Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking. British Journal of Criminology, 54(1), 2-19.
• CLASS TEN/ Human trafficking and anti-trafficking:
  • One of the following:
    • Andrijasevic, R. (2007). Beautiful dead bodies: Gender, migration and representation in anti-trafficking campaigns. Feminist Review, 86(1), 24-44.
    • Ham, J. (2020). Anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.
• CLASS ELEVEN/ Globalizing humanitarianism:
  • One of the following:
    • Hoang, K.K. (2016) Perverse humanitarianism and the business of rescue: What’s wrong with NGOs and what’s right with the johns? Political Power and Social Theory 30(1), 19-43.
    • Henriksen, S. (2018). Consuming life after anti-trafficking. Anti-Trafficking Review, (10).
• CLASS TWELVE/ Artificial Intelligence and Global Migration + Class Summary:
  • One of the following:
    • Sanja Milivojevic, ‘Artificial Intelligence, Illegalized Mobility and Lucrative Alchemy of Border Utopia’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2022.
    • Louis E. Everuss, ‘AI, Smart Borders and Migration’, In Anthony Elliott (ed.) The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI, (London / New York: Routledge, 2022)