Seminar: Anthropology of Migration - Details

Seminar: Anthropology of Migration - Details

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General information

Course name Seminar: Anthropology of Migration
Course number MA: APT / MA: STE
Semester WS 2013/14
Current number of participants 2
expected number of participants 25
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 16.10.2013 16:15 - 17:45
Type/Form MA: APT / MA: STE
Performance record Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben.
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für) MA (45/75/120)
SWS 2
Miscellanea Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.

Rooms and times

No room preference
Wednesday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly(14x)

Comment/Description

Migration seems to be a universal phenomenon. But why should and would people migrate? What motivates them? Is it, as we often hear in the media, primarily for economic reasons? What kinds of theories are there to explain centuries and different kinds of migrations? These are some of the questions we will raise in this seminar. Some of the specific themes we will study are the following: migration studies and history of migrations, primarily in Europe and the USA; migration theories; kinds of migrations (labour, asylum seeking, voluntary, forced, feminine, transnational and the like) and approaches to the study of migration. The seminar will look at migration as a historical but also more contemporary process and examine the types of questions and theories anthropological studies have addressed. We will critically examine these, especially from the perspective of theory, methodology and in terms of their results.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • Admission locked.