Global Migration

Entry requirements

Applicants for MSc by Research must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University).

Months of entry

January, April, July, October

Course content

The MSc by Research in Global Migration allows you to undertake a year-long individual programme of personally and professionally enriching research. Your global migration research project will be shaped by participation in activities such as seminars, workshops, laboratory activity and fieldwork, as well as your involvement in one of our established research groups.

The range of our current human geographical research in this area includes

• Multi-sensuous geographies of movement and the ways they are governed;
• The diversity of mobile experiences (labour migrations, cultural mobility, spiritual mobilities) and the divisions they produce;
• Mobile subjectivities, socialities and politics of mobility;
• Inequalities and power dynamics of different mobilities and migrations.
• Rethinking care for marginalised people: different ways of com-passionate being together with mobile others;
• Developing broader (excessive) understanding of ethical responsibility for people in need;

We are ranked:

• Top 100 in the World - Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking Subject Rankings 2024)
• 90% of our research outputs have been recognised as world leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
• 100% of the environment was rated as world leading and internationally excellent - Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
• Top 201-250 in the World (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026)