300650 Transnational Migration and Development in West Africa (MA: Soziologie der Globalen Welt) (S) (WiSe 2025/2026)
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The course/seminar aims to critically look at the ways immigrants contribute to development processes in their home countries, thus, the migration-development-nexus. In particular, it highlights the transnational practices employed in these processes with a concentration on West Africans to their home countries. It seeks to widen students' perspectives of these processes and be able to analyse in its diverse facets. Various actors and their roles in these processes or routines will be looked at. We will discuss these in a post-colonial context.
The following topics will be explored;
1. Migration and Development- General Overview and the Transnational Lens
2. Forms of Development
3. The Role of Traditional Rulers
4. Brain Drain, Brain Gain, or Brain Circulation?
5. Transnational Families
6. Remittances (Financial and Social)
7. Strategies for Raising Funds
Teaching staff
Dates ( Calendar view )
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Di | 10:00-12:00 | X-C4-224 | 28.10.2025-06.02.2026 |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 30-M-Soz-M8a Sociology of the Global World a Soziologie der globalen Welt a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-M-Soz-M8b Sociology of the Global World b Soziologie der globalen Welt b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-M-Soz-M8c Sociology of the Global World c Soziologie der globalen Welt c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| Seminar 2 | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 30-WS-GTI Global Trade and Inequality Globaler Handel und Ungleichheit | Research seminar | Study requirement
Graded examination |
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| 30-WS-WSL World Society and Law Weltgesellschaft und Recht | Research seminar | Study requirement
Graded examination |
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- Last update basic details/teaching staff:
- Friday, May 23, 2025
- Last update times:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Last update rooms:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Type(s) / SWS (hours per week per semester)
- seminar (S) / 2
- Language
- This lecture is taught in english
- Department
- Faculty of Sociology
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