Migration and social change
Individually written responses of 250 words to each reflection question.
Professor is assessing students understanding of the unit resources, not the general knowledge, so make sure to apply theories and concepts covered in the resources and lecture pods.
Question 1: week 5: Research an example of one of these and write about it using the concepts from the lecture pod and readings:
a) positive intervention by an organization or a government to attend to migrant women’s specific needs;
b) positive example of media representation of migrant women.
Resources:
Use login details provided to view the short lecture pods for week 5 and reference it in the reflection ^^^
Ehrkamp, Patricia (2013) had it with them!” Younger migrant women’s spatial practices of conformity and resistance’, Gender, Place & Culture, 20:1, 19-36.
Question2: week 6: Pick an object in your house that a family member feels a strong attachment to and complete two tasks: a) interview them about it; b) take notes about their memory and use of the object as well as its placement in the house and write about it in 250 words.
Resources:
Back, Les and Keith, Michael (2014) ’Reflections: Writing cities’, in Hannah Jones, Emma Jackson and Alex Rhys-Taylor (ed.), Stories of cosmopolitan belonging: Emotion and location. London: Routledge,15-28.
More resouces link provided in separate file
Question 3: week 7: Can food be a source of meaningful intercultural encounters? Use the essential and supplementary readings and/or your own example to address this question.
Resources:
Khorana, Sukhmani (2018) ’Introduction’, in The Tastes and Politicsof Inter-Cultural Food in Australia. Rowman & Littlefield.
