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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)
A key question addressed throughout this course is: how do European states respond to mobility and diversity in an increasingly hostile, contested and securitised context? Through engaging with state-of-the-art literature, we will discuss how these questions are dramatically reshaping Europe and how they are situated within wider postcolonial, postsocialist and post-Cold War global contexts. The course will deal with all of these issues from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective, engaging both with key European and North American scholarship and with non-Eurocentric and socially transformative approaches. The approach is to problematize mobility and diversity politics by questioning common value-laden assumptions, including in (academic) knowledge production, in order to understand the historically contingent normative nature of some of the most highly politicised problems of our time. |
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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)
Students will be challenged to rethink some of their own taken-for-granted assumptions and will be motivated to take a deep and critical perspective on highly topical and politicised issues. They will be equipped to contest the increasingly hostile discourse on migration and diversity with informed opinions, and to contribute themselves to the debate in an informed manner. By the end of this course, students will be able to: - Understand contemporary debates on migration, asylum, immigrant integration, national identity and citizenship in Europe - Familiarise themselves with key state-of-the-art theoretical and methodological approaches to this topic across disciplines - Learn to critically engage with the literature and discuss opposing views on contested and polarised issues; engage with critical, radical, and transformative scholarly perspectives - Historicise and contextualise contemporary trends within wider global circumstances - Be sensitised with respect to gender, racial, ethnic, class, heteronormative and other axis of difference when approaching social problems - Enhance their reading, writing, presentation and critical thinking skills |
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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (21.02.2022)
This is a pass/fail seminar. To pass, students are expected to participate in class discussions, engage with the readings via mini home assignments and submit the final essay by the deadline. Students from outside of Charles University that need a grade in order to have their credits acknowledged at their respective universities, will receive a grade. Points will be composed of essay (70%), home works (15%) and in-class activity (15%). (See this link for grading equivalency rules). Home assignments: due before each class. To ensure the students’ engagement with the literature, they will be expected to submit a brief comment (one paragraph to maximum one page) before each class where they will interact with the reading assigned for the respective class in one of the following ways (according to individual preference): a) critically challenging the views expressed in the reading (e.g., identifying gaps, contradictions, opposing views, the validity of the argument, etc.), b) reflecting on the problem discussed (e.g., by identifying further questions, discussing one’s personal take on the issue, etc.), or c) discussing the central arguments and key concepts in the reading. Assigned readings will be made available beforehand. Final essay: The final exam will take the form of an original research essay on a topic of the students’ choice, with previous consultation with the lecturer. The take-home essay should contain between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including references and all figures and annotations). Due by 10 June 2022 at midnight. Masters students: between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including references and all figures and annotations). Bachelor students: 1,500 – 2,000 words (including references and all figures and annotations) |
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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)
See syllabus below for mandatory literature. Further recommended literature: Bhambra, G. K. (2017). Locating Brexit in the pragmatics of race, citizenship and empire. In W. Outhwaite (Ed.), Brexit: Sociological responses. Anthem Press. Bosworth, M., Fili, A., & Pickering, S. (2018). Women and border policing at the edges of Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(13), 2182–2196. Buckel, S., & Wissel, J. (2010). State Project Europe: The Transformation of the European Border Regime and the Production of Bare Life. International Political Sociology, 4(1), 33–49. Czaika, M., de Haas, H. (2014) The Globalization of Migration: Has the World Become More Migratory? International Migration Review 48(2): 283-323. Dahinden, J. (2016). A plea for the ‘de-migranticization’ of research on migration and integration. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(13), 2207–2225. Dzenovska, D. (2013). Historical agency and the coloniality of power in postsocialist Europe. Anthropological Theory, 13(4), 394–416. Essed, P., & Goldberg, D. T. (Eds.). (2002). Race critical theories: Text and context. Blackwell Publishers. Fekete, L. (2004). Anti-Muslim Racism and the European Security State. Race & Class, 46(1), 3–29. Grosfoguel, R. (2004). Race and Ethnicity or Racialized Ethnicities?: Identities within Global Coloniality. Ethnicities, 4(3), 315–336. Hall, S. (2003). “In But Not of Europe”: Europe and Its Myths. In L. Passerini (Ed.), Figures d’Europe: Images and myths of Europe (pp. 35–46). Peter Lang. Huysmans, J. (2000). The European Union and the Securitization of Migration. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 38(5), 751–777. Ibrahim, M. (2005). The Securitization of Migration: A Racial Discourse. International Migration, 43(5), 163–187. Kalir, B. (2019). Departheid: The Draconian Governance of Illegalized Migrants in Western States. Conflict and Society, 5(1), 19–40. Mignolo, W. D., & Tlostanova, M. V. (2006). Theorizing from the Borders: Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge. European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), 205–221. Moffette, D., & Walters, W. (2018). Flickering Presence: Theorizing Race and Racism in the Governmentality of Borders and Migration. Studies in Social Justice, 12(1), 92–110. Romero, M. (2008). Crossing the immigration and race border: A critical race theory approach to immigration studies. Contemporary Justice Review, 11(1), 23–37. Sayad, A. (2004). The suffering of the immigrant. Polity Press. Schinkel, W. (2018). Against ‘immigrant integration’: For an end to neocolonial knowledge production. Comparative Migration Studies, 6(1), 31. Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2006). The New Mobilities Paradigm. Environment and Planning A, 38(2), 207–226. Tyszler, E. (2019). From controlling mobilities to control over women’s bodies: Gendered effects of EU border externalization in Morocco. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 25. Walters, W. (2006). Border/Control. European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), 187–203. Wimmer, A., & Schiller, N. G. (2002). Methodological nationalism and beyond: Nation–state building, migration and the social sciences. Global Networks, 2(4), 301–334. |
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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (21.02.2022)
24. February 2022 Introduction. 3. March 2022 Understanding the governance of mobility and diversity: overview of key theories and concepts Reading: Casas-Cortes, M. et al. (2015). New Keywords: Migration and Borders. Cultural Studies, 29(1), 55–87 (only pp. 61-85) 10. March 2022 Recent controversies related to (the politics of) mobility and diversity Key points: The refugee wave 2015-2017 – a crisis discourse; Brexit; Poland-Belarus border; attitudes towards immigrants; populism, the far right and anti-immigrant campaigns. Reading: Crawley, H., & Skleparis, D. (2018). Refugees, migrants, neither, both: Categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(1), 48–64. 17. March 2022 Asylum and immigration policies in the European Union Key points: comparison of immigration regimes; EU asylum politics; asylum and humanitarianism; brain gain and the discourse on deservingness; shifts in restrictiveness; the production of illegality Reading: Haas, H. de, Natter, K., & Vezzoli, S. (2018). Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies. International Migration Review. 24. March 2022 Building Fortress Europe: borders and bordering Key points: border management; surveillance; externalisation of the EU border; pushbacks and deaths at sea; deportations and detentions; the securitisation of migration; exceptionalism and encampment. Reading: De Genova, N. (2019). Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability. Gender a Výzkum / Gender and Research, 20(1), 92–104. 31. March 2022 Citizenship in a neoliberal context Key points: recent trends in citizenship policy; citizenship deprivation; neoliberal discourse; civic citizenship vs. national belonging; citizenship tests Reading: van Houdt, F., Suvarierol, S., & Schinkel, W. (2011). Neoliberal communitarian citizenship: Current trends towards ‘earned citizenship’ in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. International Sociology, 26(3), 408–432. 7. April 2022 “Integration nations” – debates on assimilation and social cohesion Key points: integration research vs. integration policy; debates on “assimilability”; integration courses; the social imaginary of integrationism Reading: Favell, A. (2014). Integration policy and integration research in Europe: A review and critique. In Immigration, integration and mobility: New agendas in migration studies. Essays: 1998—2014 (pp. 69–122). ECPR Press. 14. April 2022 No class (Děkanské volno)
21. April 2022 Religious and cultural clashes and the debate on multiculturalism Key points: multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism versus assimilationism and nativism, superdiversity; the Muslim “other”; gendered constructions (case study: the headscarf debate) Reading: Korteweg, A. C. (2017). The failures of ‘immigrant integration’: The gendered racialized production of non-belonging. Migration Studies, 5(3), 428–444. 28. April 2022 The nation-state and its “others” in a globalised world Key points: tensions between the national order and global capitalism; the liberal paradox; migration and national belonging; the case for open borders Reading: Kukathas, C. (2012). Why open borders? Ethical Perspectives, 19(4), 650-675. 5. May 2022 Racism, neocolonialism and the imperial roots of “Fortress Europe” Key points: “Birth right lottery” – the passport as the new privilege; colonial legacies in diversity management, racial/class/gender/heteronormative hierarchies, within-Europe east-west hierarchies, the racial state. Reading: Rodríguez, E. G. (2018). The Coloniality of Migration and the “Refugee Crisis”: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 34(1), 16–28. 12. May 2022 Critical and decolonial approaches to the management of mobility and diversity: key take-aways Key points: coloniality/modernity school, critical race theory, migration as decolonisation, reflexive migration studies, methodological (de)nationalism, postsocialist critique Reading: Carver, N. (2019). The Silent Backdrop: Colonial Anxiety at the Border. Journal of Historical Sociology, 32(2), 154–172. 19. May 2022 Recapitulations, feedback, key take-aways, class evaluation.
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Last update: Iva Dodevska, M.A., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)
The course is intended primarily for MA-level students in the disciplines of sociology, political science, international relations, anthropology, social policy, human/social geography, security studies, and related disciplines, as well as in more specialized interdisciplinary fields such as migration studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, nationalism and ethnicity studies, and related fields. The course is open free of charge to students from all 4EU+ members (Charles, Heidelberg and Sorbonne universities, as well as the universities of Copenhagen, Milan and Warsaw) as well as affiliated universities (University of Zürich, Macquarie University, University of St Andrews). Previous knowledge on the subject is advantageous, but not necessary. Good knowledge of English (reading, writing and speaking) is mandatory. |