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IHS 6190 - Global Migration Health of Displaced Peoples

This course provides a conceptual framework to understand the process of global migration and human health. Students critically examine the social and political construction of displaced people (migrant and refugee), and the resultant state and humanitarian responses surrounding health and social services. This course frames global health in broad terms to include underlying social and economic conditions, including climate change, economic underdevelopment, and political instability, which displace people around the world and present barriers to achieving health and well-being in displaced communities. In order to sharpen skills in critical analysis of health problems and to better understand their underlying causes, students draw upon various fields including: global health, development studies, public health, anthropology, and other social sciences.

Requisites: IHS 5210
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to identify key international and national laws in place for displaced peoples in crises.
  • Students will be able to define the roles of various multilateral and non-governmental actors who respond to migrant and refugee crises.
  • Students will be able to discuss how violence, social suffering/exclusion, health, disease, and cultural identity are worsened by displacement.
  • Students will be able to explain the associations between political and economic violence, climate change, migration/displacement, development/underdevelopment, and global health.
  • Students will be able to use critical thinking on international global health and migration issues.
  • Students will be able to develop abilities for group work, like working together to research a problem, conduct a needs assessment, and design a hypothetical intervention to address a contemporary migrant/refugee health problem, & deliver a presentation.


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