MLL394 - Migration and Refugee Law and Policy
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Not offered in 2025 |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | For Bachelor of Laws (including combined Law awards) students only |
| Prerequisite: | Students enrolled before 2019: must have passed MLL110 and must have successfully completed 3 MLL/MLP/MLT coded law units. |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | MLJ730 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour on-campus lecture (recordings provided) and 1 x 1 hour on-campus seminar (recordings provided) each week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour online lecture (recordings provided) and 1 hour online seminar (recordings provided) each week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
The unit aims to provide students with an understanding of migration law. The unit analyses the substantive and procedural rules and principles governing this area of law and discusses policy considerations behind them. This unit equips students with the basic background needed to work in the area, as well as proving useful skills in statutory interpretation for students who wish to work in workplace or employment law, family law and several areas of public policy. This unit also provides the necessary background awareness as to where immigration issues arise in these areas of law, as they regularly will in a cosmopolitan society such as Australia.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Explain and analyse the global and social contexts of the movement of people around the world and the ever-evolving drivers for migration. | GLO8: Global Citizenship |
| ULO2 | Interpret the legal and policy framework dealing with migration to Australia and the reasons and impetus for this framework. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Apply relevant reasoning and interpretation to analyse and critique a case and to construct written responses to legal fact patterns. | GLO4: Critical Thinking |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: (Individual) Case Analysis | 2000 words | 40% | Week 6 |
| End-of-unit assessment task: Written | 2000 words | 60% | End-of-unit assessment period. |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for MLL394 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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