Last update: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (03.12.2019)
The course provides a survey of main ideas underlying debates on international borders, cross-border migration, and politics of national/state belonging and control thereof. This course will consider the border politics involved in the making of state power, migrant strategies, and local and (trans) national communities based on assigned weekly reading. Using the EU/non-EU border as our primary loci of inquiry, we will explore the rights and reception of those who cross borders: not only geopolitical, but also linguistic, racial, economic, and cultural. Examining immigration policy and admissions policy, law enforcement along the border, media representations of migrants, and stories of border crossers, we will attempt to understand the forces that expand and constrain membership rights in these intersecting communities. How are borders constructed and contested by groups on both sides of the border? How are rights of belonging and membership transformed by migrants and “trespassers”? Border politics will be considered from an anthropological perspective allowing us to consider a wide variety of scholarly work in fiction and non-fiction, contemporary media, and border studies.
Syllabus - Czech
Last update: doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D. (03.12.2019)
General strucure of the course:
Week 1: Introduction to the curse
Week 2 - 6: Key debates of international migration
Week 7: Reading week, no class
Week 8 - 12: Border studies & Anthropology of borders: concepts, approaches, theories and case studies
