Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
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The aim of the course is to present theoretical and practical framework of multiculturalism in Europe while using comparative studies covering other parts of the world, mainly Canada and USA. The course will also analyze major political and legal instruments for protection of minorities and for elimination of racism. The objective is to enable participants to understand issues of inequality, race, and gender and their impact on policy making and policy implementation. Through learning about the Other participants will also have the opportunity to learn about issues concerning their own cultures and societies. Through active participation and the formulation of policy suggestions (or analysis) students will gain greater understanding of the complexities surrounding the issue of minority rights and policies specific to inequality, race and gender.
To access the online modules of the course go to http://dl.cuni.cz and search for MM202
Course Begins in Feb. 19th
There will be no class April 16 and 23rd due to the instructors absence
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
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The principles of equality, non-discrimination, observance of human rights and protection of ethnic minorities are fundamental European values. One of the traditionally most severely marginalized and excluded groups have been the Roma, Gypsies, and Travellers. The course describes the currents situation and in Europe and aims to explain reasons behind prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination against these ethnic groups and to introduce students to public policy, legal and advocacy measures dealing with these negative phenomena at the global, European and national levels. This course will compare European practices with the North American condition.
The course structure is based on the concept of Blended learning and combines online with face-to-face learning. Most of the course work takes place in the moodle environment on dl.cuni.cz The number of students in the course is limited to 15.
Course Begins in Feb. 19th
There will be no class April 16 and 23rd due to the instructors absence
Aim of the course
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
The aim of the course is to present a theoretical and practical framework of multiculturalism in Europe while using comparative studies covering other parts of the world, mainly Canada and USA. The course will also analyze major political and legal instruments for the protection of minorities and for the elimination of racism. The objective is to enable participants to understand issues of inequality, race, and gender and their impact on policy making and policy implementation. Through learning about “theOther” participants will also have the opportunity to learn about issues concerning their own cultures and societies. Through active participation and the formulation of policy suggestions (or analysis) students will gain greater understanding of the complexities surrounding the issue of minority rights and policies specific to inequality, race and gender.
Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
I. General background Week 1 No required readings
Week 2 Readings: Ethnicity, race, culture, identity, racism ~ Eriksen, T. H.: ?Ethnicity, Race, Class and Nation ?, text 4, in Hutchinson, John, Smith Anthony, eds. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford- New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 28-31 ~ Van den Berghe, Pierre: ?Does race matter??, text 9, in Hutchinson (above), pp. 57-63 ~ Cornell, Stephen, Hartmann, Douglas (1998) Ethnicity and Race. Making Identities in a Changing World, Pine Forge Press/A Sage Publication Company, text on The definition of race, pp 21- 43, 68-69 ~ Kovats, Martin (2001) ?The Emergence of European Roma Policy.? In Guy,, ed/ Between Past and Future: the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe. Hartfield; Uni of Hertfordshire Press. 93-116. Optional: ~ Richmond, Anthony (1994) Global Apartheid, Toronto: Oxford University Press (pp.1-45) on power, conflict, identity (good description of race and ethnicity)
Week 3 Readings: Integration, multiculturalism, nationalism ~ Birch, Anthony (1989) Nationalism and National Integration, London: Unwin Hyman Ltd, chapter 4: National integration, pp. 36-51 ? classical text on integration! ~ Brubacker, Rogers, ?Civic and ethnic nations in France and Germany?, text 28. in Hutchinson, John, Smith Anthony, ed. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 168-173 ~ Kymlicka, Will (2001)? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe?, in Kymlicka, Will, Opalski, Magda (eds.) Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.13 ? 103 Optional: ~ Hancock, Ian (2000) ?The Consequences of Anti-Gypsy Racism in Europe? in Other Voices. The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism, v. 2, n.1 (February 2000), http:// www.othervoices.org/2.1/hancock/roma.html ~ UNDP (2003) The Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, UNDP. http://roma.undp.sk* II. Policy implications
Week 4 Readings: Definitions and forms of discrimination ~ Rex, John (2001) ?The concept of a multicultural society? in Guibernau, Montserrat and Rex, John (eds): The Ethnicity reader, Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, pp. 205-220 ~ Kuper, Leo (2001) ?Plural Societies? in Guibernau (above) ~ Thornberry, Patrick (2001)? An Unfinished Story of Minority Rights? in Bíró, A.M. and Kovács, P (eds) Diversity in Action, Budapest. LGI/OSI, pp.47-73
Week 5 Readings: Policy options ~ EU race equality directive "Implementing the Principle of Equal Treatment Between Persons Irrespective of Racial or Ethnic Origin" Directive 2000/43/EC (adopted on 29 June 2000)* ~ Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Chapter 7: The Political Structure of Multicultural Society Equal opportunity policy and positive action
Week 6 Readings: Multiculturalism, identity and politics- cont. ~ Benhabib, Seyla (2002) The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton, USAWoodstock, UK: Princeton University Press, preface plus pp. 1-48 Optional: ~ Kymlicka, Will, ?Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East? Journal Of Ethnopolitical and Minority Issues in Europe. Issue 4/2002
Week 7 Readings: Legislative framework: international instruments ~ Framework convention for the protection of national minorities in in Bíró, A.M. and Kovács, P (eds) Diversity in Action, Budapest. LGI/OSI, pp.75-81 ~ The ERRC letter to Dr. Petra Buzková of 26 March 2003
III. Minority Case study Week 8 Student submitted readings, Readings: Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers Optional- ~ Okely, Judith (1997) ?Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity. The place of the intellectual? in James, Alisson et al. (eds) After Writing Culture. Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology, London: Routledge ~ Bosswick, Wolfgang. ?Minorities, policies and strategies in Europe: Germany? in? Cultural Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Europe. David Turton and Julia Ferreras ed. Universidad de Deusto. Bilbao. 1999 pg 51-56 ~ Liegeois, Jean-Pierre. ?Roma, Gypsies, Travellers.? Strasbourg: Council of Europe, pp 29-42 (Ch. 2: Populations); (1994) pg 29-42
Week 9 Student submitted readings, Readings: Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers Cont. ~ World Bank (2003) The Roma Page, www.worldbank.org/eca/roma Decade of Roma Inclusion www.romadecade.org ~ Lee, Ronald ?Post-Communism Romani migration to Canada.? Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol XIII No. 2 pg 51-69 (Year?)
~ Birch, Anthony (1989) Nationalism and National Integration, London: Unwin Hyman Ltd, chapter 4: National
integration, pp. 36-51 ? classical text on integration!
~ Brubacker, Rogers, ?Civic and ethnic nations in France and Germany?, text 28. in Hutchinson, John, Smith
Anthony, ed. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 168-173
~ Kymlicka, Will (2001)? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe?, in Kymlicka, Will,
Opalski, Magda (eds.) Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.13 ? 103
Optional:
~ Hancock, Ian (2000) ?The Consequences of Anti-Gypsy Racism in Europe? in Other Voices. The (e)Journal of
Cultural Criticism, v. 2, n.1 (February 2000), http:// www.othervoices.org/2.1/hancock/roma.html
~ UNDP (2003) The Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, UNDP. http://roma.undp.sk*
II. Policy implications
Week 4
Readings: Definitions and forms of discrimination
~ Rex, John (2001) ?The concept of a multicultural society? in Guibernau, Montserrat and Rex, John (eds): The
Ethnicity reader, Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, pp. 205-220
~ Kuper, Leo (2001) ?Plural Societies? in Guibernau (above)
~ Thornberry, Patrick (2001)? An Unfinished Story of Minority Rights? in Bíró, A.M. and Kovács, P (eds) Diversity
in Action, Budapest. LGI/OSI, pp.47-73
Week 5
Readings: Policy options
~ EU race equality directive "Implementing the Principle of Equal Treatment Between Persons Irrespective of Racial
or Ethnic Origin" Directive 2000/43/EC (adopted on 29 June 2000)*
~ Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Chapter 7: The Political Structure of Multicultural
Society Equal opportunity policy and positive action
Week 6
Readings: Multiculturalism, identity and politics- cont.
~ Benhabib, Seyla (2002) The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton, USAWoodstock,
UK: Princeton University Press, preface plus pp. 1-48
Optional:
~ Kymlicka, Will, ?Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East? Journal Of Ethnopolitical and Minority
Issues in Europe. Issue 4/2002
Week 7
Readings: Legislative framework: international instruments
~ Framework convention for the protection of national minorities in in Bíró, A.M. and Kovács, P (eds) Diversity in
Action, Budapest. LGI/OSI, pp.75-81
~ The ERRC letter to Dr. Petra Buzková of 26 March 2003
III. Minority Case study
Week 8 Student submitted readings,
Readings: Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers
Optional-
~ Okely, Judith (1997) ?Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity. The place of the intellectual? in
James, Alisson et al. (eds) After Writing Culture. Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology,
London: Routledge
~ Bosswick, Wolfgang. ?Minorities, policies and strategies in Europe: Germany? in? Cultural Identities and Ethnic
Minorities in Europe. David Turton and Julia Ferreras ed. Universidad de Deusto. Bilbao. 1999 pg 51-56
~ Liegeois, Jean-Pierre. ?Roma, Gypsies, Travellers.? Strasbourg: Council of Europe, pp 29-42 (Ch. 2: Populations);
(1994) pg 29-42
Week 9 Student submitted readings,
Readings: Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers Cont.
~ World Bank (2003) The Roma Page, www.worldbank.org/eca/roma Decade of Roma Inclusion
www.romadecade.org
~ Lee, Ronald ?Post-Communism Romani migration to Canada.? Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol
XIII No. 2 pg 51-69 (Year?)
Teaching methods
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
This course is taught using a blended approach. (In class lectures combined with online individual and group study)
Through active participation and the formulation of policy suggestions (or analysis) students will gain greater understanding of the complexities surrounding the issue of minority rights and policies specific to inequality, race and gender.
All relevant course materials, including this syllabus, can be found on the course website: dl.cuni.cz (moodle platform) which will be updated weekly. (To access the materials go to dl.cuni.cz, search for MM202, add yourself as a student, you may need the password provided during class) All submissions will be electronic via Moodle, instructions can be found of the Moodle web platform.
The majority of lectures will be delivered in the form of PowerPoint slide presentations which will also be placed on the website for your convenience.
The reader is available online with the rest of the course materials.
Requirements to the exam
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
Students will be expected to write a total of two (2) AQCI’s, one based on the reading package and one on a reading chosen by the student (must be approved through Moodle and posted for others to read). Additionally, students are required to deliver one essay (or case study) up to three thousand words in length.This essay (or case study) should be an analysis or discussion related to a policythat has been applied in one country and that you think should or could be applied in other countries. Additionally, students will make one oral presentation on a selected topic related to the course content and recommended reading ( ie. A policy suggestion that they have developed or would like to see applied).Active participation and minimum of seventy percent attendance is required.
The final grade will be based on the following criteria: Assessment:
30% -2 AQCI’s (1 from reader 1 student submitted reading)
40% -Policy paper-based on a topic of choice agreed upon by instructo
20% -Student presentation and policy suggestion (10-15 min)
10% -Final policy presentation: Defended(oral exam)(grade based on students ability to convey why their policy suggestion is adequate)
Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)
The course structure is based on the concept of Blended learning and combines online with face-to-face learning. Most of the course work takes place in the moodle environment on dl.cuni.cz
I. Theoretical Framework Date: Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course and terminology (Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Identity)
Week 2 No Class
Week 3 Introduction - Concept of Multiculturalism Racisms & Discrimination
II. Policy Implications Week 4 Definitions and forms of discrimination / racism
Week 7 Legislative framework: International Instruments (EU, UN)
III. Minority Case Study Week 8 The Roma Road (video cum discussion)
Week 9 No class
IV. Country Case Studies - Student Presentations Week 10 No class
Case Study:
Week 11 Canada, the Netherlands
Week 12 - The Roma/ Gypsies/ TravellersUK, Czech Republic,?
Week 13 ? Conclusion Final debate and grades
Last update: Mgr. Antonin Bernard Thompson Mikes, BA, Ph.D. (20.02.2017)
The course structure is based on the concept of Blended learning and combines online with face-to-face learning. Most of the course work takes place in the moodle environment on dl.cuni.cz
I. Theoretical Framework Date: Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course and terminology (Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Identity)
Week 2 No Class
Week 3 Introduction - Concept of Multiculturalism Racisms & Discrimination
II. Policy Implications Week 4 Definitions and forms of discrimination / racism
