SOC585 Migration and Transnationalism

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2013
Rozsah
1/1/0. 10 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Radka Klvaňová, Ph.D., M.A. (přednášející)
Prof. Peggy Levitt (přednášející)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Čt 26. 9. 16:00–17:40 U36, Čt 14. 11. 16:00–17:40 U36, Čt 5. 12. 16:00–17:40 U36
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We live in a world on the move. There are an estimated 214 million international migrants worldwide, up from 150 million in 2000. In 2010, one in nine people lived in a country where migrants made up 10 or more percent of the population. One out of every 33 persons in the world today is a migrant.
Much migration scholarship has focused on immigrant incorporation—on how migrants become part of the countries where they settle. Recent work, on both sides of the Atlantic, reveals how migrants continue to invest, vote, and pray in the countries they come from at the same time that they remain active in the economic and political life of the countries where they move. Both sending and receiving states are waking up to these dynamics and creating new ways to encourage long-term membership without residence and forms of participation and representation without full citizenship. In general, though, while more migrants live some aspects of their lives across borders, they continue to be served by legal, educational, and health care systems that remain stubbornly within the boundaries of the nation-state.
At the same time, and as a result, we are witnessing the rise of what Steve Vertovec calls “superdiverse” urban spaces. Because migrants from a wider range of countries are settling in more places, with very different legal statuses and access to rights and services, new patterns of inequality and discrimination are emerging. This new complexity is layered onto existing patterns of socioeconomic diversity, residential segregation and social exclusion.
The course departs from the intersection of migration and cultural studies. We will explore questions such as how notions of gender, race, and class circulate within transnational social fields and are reconstituted differently across borders, how social remittances or the ideas, practices, and know-how that are exchanged contribute to immigrant incorporation and homeland development, how different regimes of ethnic and religious diversity management or what Adrian Favell calls philosophies of immigration shape immigrant integration and enduring homeland ties, the ways governments use multiculturalism to reposition cities and nations geopolitically and how social welfare provision and the social safety net is being rewoven in response to migrants transnational lives—if and how do educational, health care, and legal institutions change when communities constitute themselves across space?
By the end of the semester, students should be able to:
• Define and discuss transnational studies and transnational approaches to migration;
• Understand and explain migration related phenomena in the perspective of cultural sociology and cultural studies;
• Apply the transational perspective to different domains of social life;
• Design a research methodology for studying culture in motion;
Osnova
  • Session 1 (26.9.) Introduction to the course
  • Session 2 (14.10.) Transnational Studies and Transnational Approaches to Migration/Studying Culture in Motion
  • Group project: Design a research methodology for studying culture in motion. Redesign your own research project using a transnational optic
  • Session 3 (15.10.) The Cultural Armature of Cities
  • Group Project: What is the nature of the cultural armature in the city where you live? What would you do to make it more conducive to immigration integration?
  • Session 4 (16.10.) Using Culture to Create Diverse Communities
  • Group Project: Curate your own museum exhibit on immigration and/or cosmopolitanism
  • Session 5 (17.10.) Global Social Protection Regimes
  • Group Project: Design a new kind of education, health, pension, or social welfare program that responds to transnational migration
  • Session 6 (18.10.) Lecture by Peggy Levitt at Identities in Conflict, Conflict in Identities conference
  • Session 7 (14.11.) Migration and Transnationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Session 8 (5.12.) Conclusion
Literatura
  • The transnational studies reader : intersections and innovations. Edited by Sanjeev Khagram - Peggy Levitt. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2008, xii, 575. ISBN 9780415953733. info
  • BASCH, Linda G., Nina Glick SCHILLER a Cristina SZANTON BLANC. Nations unbound : transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments, and deterritorialized nation-states. London: Routledge, 1994, 344 p. ISBN 2881246303. URL info
Výukové metody
1. Lectures, 2. Class discussions on readings, 3. Group projects in class, 4. Peer-to-peer feedback on the outline of the final paper, 5. Final essay, 6. Written final exam
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The core of the course is taught by Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College and Harvard University) in block of sessions that will take place from 14-17/10 2013 (3 hours afternoon sessions). Students also attend the lecture by Peggy Levitt at the conference Identities in Conflict, Conflict in Identities (18th or 19th October 2013). Moreover, three more sessions take place during the fall semester (26/9; 14/11; 5/12) with Radka Klvaňová (Masaryk University).
About teachers:
Peggy Levitt is a Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. She was the Willie Brandt Guest Professor at the University of Malmö in Spring 2009, a visiting lecturer at the University of Limerick in Fall 2008, and a visiting professor at the University of Bologna during the summer of 2008. She is currently the Visiting International Fellow in the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. Her books include God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (New Press 2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge 2007), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (Russell Sage 2002), and The Transnational Villagers (UC Press, 2001). She has also edited special volumes of International Migration Review, Global Networks, Mobilities, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. A film based on her work, Art Across Borders, came out in 2009. http://www.peggylevitt.org/
Radka Klvaňová is a sociologist at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. She currently works on her dissertation thesis applying cultural perspective to migration, citizenship and politics of belonging in the study of migrants from Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. She co-edited special issue of the journal Social Studies on Transnationalism and a book Boundaries in Motion: Rethinking Contemporary Migration Events.
Contact person: Radka Klvaňová (radka.klvanova@gmail.com), office hours: by appointment


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