Seminar: BA: The legal anthropology of labour migration - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: BA: The legal anthropology of labour migration
Subtitle	Leitung: Angélica Cocomá, M.A.
Course number	BA_LHGZ
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	32
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Thursday, 17.04.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Room: Seminarraum Ethnologie
Pre-requisites	Literaturempfehlung: John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, (New York: Penguin, 1994), 7th edition, 1871, Book II: chapters 3 and 4 Marx, Capital, Volume I. “Wages,” Ch 22. Polanyi, K. (2001) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Beacon Press, Boston, Second edition. Ch 5 Mary Beth Mills, “Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 32, (2003), 41-62 Shachar, A., & Fine, S. (2020). The Shifting border: legal cartographies of migration and mobility: Ayelet Shachar in dialogue. (1st ed.). Manchester University Press. 1-41 Manning, P., & Trimmer, T. (2004). Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900. In Migration in World History (3rd ed., pp. 132–156). Routledge Guild, E., & Mantu, S. (2011). Equivocal Claims? Ambivalent Controls? Labour Migration Regimes in the European Union. In Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration (1st ed., pp. 207–228)
Learning organisation	Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
Performance record	Modulleistung: Hausarbeit

Lecturers

• Angelica Cocoma

Rooms and times

Seminarraum Ethnologie

Thursday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) > Faculty of Philosophy I
• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90

Module assignments

• Ethnologie Ethnologie60, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtbereich > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 1: Course (Vorlesung oder Seminar)
• Ethnologie Ethnologie90, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtmodule > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 1: Course (Vorlesung oder Seminar)
• Ethnologie Ethnologie90, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Wahlpflichtbereich ohne Bachelorarbeit im Fach Ethnologie > PHI.07683.01 - Lokales Handeln in Globalen Zusammenhängen (LHGZ) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 1: Course (Vorlesung oder Seminar)

Comment/Description

Drawing on perspectives from political economy, anthropology, and law, this course examines how historical forces, and contemporary policies shape the movement of people across borders. Focusing on current labour migration policy in the European Union, the first part of the course delves into the historical and economic factors driving global labour migration, including wage inequality, colonialism, and social inequalities. The second part of the course examines the legal frameworks governing migration, by studying both the restrictive aspects of the EU “migration apparatus” as well as the “tactics of bordering” employed by migrants to navigate the current migration regime.
Literaturempfehlung: John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, (New York: Penguin, 1994), 7th edition, 1871, Book II: chapters 3 and 4
Marx, Capital, Volume I. “Wages,” Ch 22.
Polanyi, K. (2001) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Beacon Press, Boston, Second edition. Ch 5
Mary Beth Mills, “Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 32, (2003), 41-62
Shachar, A., & Fine, S. (2020). The Shifting border: legal cartographies of migration and mobility: Ayelet Shachar in dialogue. (1st ed.). Manchester University Press. 1-41
Manning, P., & Trimmer, T. (2004). Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900. In Migration in World History (3rd ed., pp. 132–156). Routledge
Guild, E., & Mantu, S. (2011). Equivocal Claims? Ambivalent Controls? Labour Migration Regimes in the European Union. In Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration (1st ed., pp. 207–228)
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.