Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin
Donnerstag, 25.10.2018 10:15 - 11:45
Teilnehmende
Study Programme: MA (45/75/120) , IAS 120
Voraussetzungen
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]
Leistungsnachweis
Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben.
Modulleistung: Seminararbeit
Studiengänge (für)
IAS und MA Ethnologie
SWS
2
Sonstiges
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
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.
