General information

Course name	Seminar: Studying Migration
Course number	MA: ETRANS
Semester	WS 2018/19
Current number of participants	4
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Thursday, 25.10.2018 10:15 - 11:45
Participants	Study Programme: MA (45/75/120) , IAS 120
Pre-requisites	Recommended Reading: Special issue of Comparative Migration Studies, vol. 3, No. 4, 2016 “Solidarity in diverse societies: Beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism” [Open Access issue, available from Springer Verlag and www.iniscoe.org]
Performance record	Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben. Modulleistung: Seminararbeit
Studiengänge (für)	IAS und MA Ethnologie
SWS	2
Miscellanea	Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.

Lecturers

PD Dr. Lale Yalcin-Heckmann

Rooms and times

No room preference: Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly

Fields of study

Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie > Master International Area Studies
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 120 LP
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 45/75

Comment/Description

Course Description:
Migration seems to be a universal phenomenon. But why should and would people migrate? What motivates them? Is it, as we hear 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 but not only in Europe and the USA; migration theories; kinds of migrations (labour, asylum seeking, voluntary, forced, feminine, transnational and the like) and various approaches to studying migration. The seminar will look at migration as a process and examine the types of questions anthropological studies have addressed and explored. We will critically examine these, especially from the perspective of theory, methodology and in a comparative perspective.