 Our master's programme is about understanding the relationships between migration and mobility and processes and projects of social, political and economic change around the world. This is a really important and exciting time to be studying migration and displacement. The current political environment is one in which borders are hardening, attitudes towards migrants are becoming more and more exclusionary and discriminatory and it's really important that we have an alternative critical independent branch of research that challenges these kinds of narratives. We need to think carefully about the ways in which borders define our understanding of migration. We challenge common assumptions about migration. We rigorously and critically think about the ways in which migration produces social change. Migration is part of how capitalism functions around the world. This system of accumulation continually generates multiple forms of dispossession and displacement. Migration is crucial for the construction of race, class, gender, city and state at the global level. We also investigate movement triggered by conflict and political turmoil, environmental change and disasters as well as large scale development projects. In exploring migration we pay particular attention to the experiences and perspectives of people on the move looking from the bottom up at how people's identities and politics are shaped by migration and their encounters with border controls and the relationship between processes of integration and transnational identities and practices. Being a student in a really immersive, diverse environment allows you to be challenged but also challenge organisations that you don't necessarily agree with. Being in the centre of London is amazing. It's so us itself is such a little kind of hidden quiet place but as soon as you step outside there's things to do everywhere you look. All of the academics who teach on our migration mobility and development programme are involved in cutting edge research and also in practice and advocacy for migrants' rights and they take that work back into the classroom and it's always a fresh approach towards thinking about migration and displacement. Our graduates go on to work and do research in all sorts of different ways throughout the world. They're working just about every country you can imagine where migrants and displacement are major issues. The MSc offers an interdisciplinary, contextually grounded approach giving you the opportunity to learn about migration not just as a separate specialist subject but as an integral part of societal transformation and change from a truly global perspective.