Who counts as a refugee?

# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand changing constructions of ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ over the last century
- Identify ways in which the study of refugees and asylum seekers raises profound questions about the basis and legitimacy of claims for ‘citizenship’
- understand how the personal lives of refugees and asylum seekers have been shaped by social policy that constructs them as ‘other’
- understand how refugees and asylum seekers have negotiated and resisted these effects and themselves shaped social policy
- understand how ‘knowledge’ about refugees and asylum seekers is produced and reproduced through research.

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