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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. Poslední úprava: Grygar Jakub, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2024)
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Course objectives In this class, students will gain a broadened perspective on the EU/non-EU border, and an awareness of the ways border politics are enacted locally as well as internationally. In particular, the students will:
Poslední úprava: Grygar Jakub, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (14.01.2022)
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Core Obligatory reading: BRETTELL, Caroline B. 2016. Perspectives on Migration Theory - Anthropology. In International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution, ed. by Michael J. White. Springer Netherlands. Pp. 41-68. DONNAN, Hastings - Thomas M. WILSON. 1999. Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State. London: Berg. FITZGERALD, David Scott - Rawan ARAR. 2018. The Sociology of Refugee Migration. Annual Review of Sociology, 44:8.1–8.20.
Required reading: ADEY, PETER. 2009. Facing airport security: affects, biopolitics, and the preemptive securisation of the mobile body. Environment and Planing D: Society and Space (27): 274-295. ANDERSSON, RUBEN. 2014. Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe. University of California Press. Pp. 137 -176. Harris Anne. 2009. Food Experiences of Forced Migrants in the UK Castles, M., Miller, M.2020. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. New York, Guilford Press. chapter 1 Castles, M., Miller, M. 2020. The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. New York, Guilford Press. DE GENEVA, NICHOLAS. 2002. Migrant “Illegality” and deportability in everyday life. Annual Review of Anthropology (31): 419-447. DONNAN, HASTINGS; WILSON, THOMAS M. 1998. ‚Nation, state and identity at international borders‘, in Border Identities. Nation and State at International Frontiers. Donnan, Hastings; Wilson, Thomas M. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-30. GUPTA, Akhil – FERGUSON, James. 1992. Beyond „Culture“: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7(1): 6-23. CHAVEZ, Leo R. 2006. Spectacle in the Desert. The Minuteman Project on the U.S-Mexico Border. John Borneman, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 2017. The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany´s refugee crisis. | Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 105–135 Lee, Everett 1966. Theory of Migration. Demography 3(1): 47–57. MASSEY, Douglas S. , Joaquin ARANGO, Graeme HUGO, Ali KOUAOUCI, Adela PELLEGRINO,J. Edward TAYLOR. 1993. Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal. Population and Development Review 19(3): 431-466. PETERSEN, William 1958. A general typology of migration. American Sociological Review, 23(3): 256-266. Ravenstein, E. G. 1885. Laws of Migration. Journal of the Statistical Society, 48(2): 167–235. Simone Cinotto 2003. The Taste of Place: Italian Immigrants in New York Shape a Foodscape, 1900-1950 Vertovec, Steven 2009: Transnationalism. New York: Routledge.
Recommended reading: BIERMANN, URSULA. 2002. Performing the Border: On Gender, Transnational Bodies and Technology. Globalization on the Line. Sadowski-Smith, Claudia (eds.) Palgrave. BOURDIEU, PIERRE. 1991. Identity and representation. Elements for a critical reflection on the idea of region. In: Language and Symbolic Power, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. FARMAN, Abou. (2017) The Political Aesthetics of Border Walls, Anthropology Now, 9:3, 3-5 GLENNY, MISHA. 2008. McMafia. A Crime Without Frontiers. NY: Vintage House. HEINZ Bude 2017: What does Stimmung Mean? Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 137-139. MASSEY, Douglas S. (ed.). 2005. Worlds in Motion. Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millenium. New York, Oxford University Press. UHEREK, Zdeněk 2018. Czech and Slovak Romani on the path abroad: Migration and human personality. Romani Studies (Liverpool University Press) 28/5 (1): 79–108. Poslední úprava: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (05.11.2023)
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Lectures, work in the seminars. Poslední úprava: Grygar Jakub, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (14.01.2022)
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Course Requirements
Evaluation Criteria of the essay/research paper There is no obligation to conduct field research; the paper can be based only on a literature review.
Course Policies
Achievement of at least 50% in each of the above-mentioned course requirements (media analysis, two intermediate tests, essay/research paper) is a prerequisite for successfully completing the course. Optional assignment Grading 100 - 91: A (Excellent. The student has shown excellent performance, originality and displayed an exceptional grasp of the subject.) Deadlines: see the course page A student may not submit the intermediate tests more than two times (i.e., s/he has the right to one resit dates). A student may not submit the essay/researcher paper more than three times (i.e., s/he has the right to two resit dates). There is no extraordinary resit date. Poslední úprava: Grygar Jakub, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2024)
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Part I: INTRODUCTION
Week 1 Introduction to the course (Jakub Grygar, Zdeněk Uherek)
Week 2 Migration crisis on external EU borders (Jakub Grygar)
Week 3 Crisis on the PL - BY border (Jakub Grygar + guest lecturer)
Week 4 Seminar I: Reflextion of the migration crisis in public and media discourse (Jakub Grygar, Zdeněk Uherek)
1. intermediate test
Part II: MIGRATION
Week 5 Migration: basic concepts in historical perspective. How migration is studied. Approaches to the study of migration until the 1960s, motivation to study migration, study of migration from the perspective of various social and natural sciences. (Zdeněk Uherek)
Supporting learning materials for distance learning § video / podcast § Prezi / PowerPoint presentation § test
Week 6 Contemporary theoretical approaches to migration. Migration theories: individual authors, schools The lecture discusses individual cases, which include individual migration theories. (Zdeněk Uherek)
Supporting learning materials for distance learning § video / podcast § Prezi / PowerPoint presentation § test
Week 7 World Migration Streams and Trends. Transnationalism; Concept of Stimmung The lecture discusses the issue of migration flows and related integration strategies. (Zdeněk Uherek)
Supporting learning materials for distance learning § video / podcast § Prezi / PowerPoint presentation § test
Week 8 Seminar II: Discussion on the topic of lectures from weeks 5 - 7 (Zdeněk Uherek)
2. intermediate test
Part III: BORDERS
Week 9 Anthropology of borders. Bordering - ordering - othering. Fortification of Europe and surveillance (Jakub Grygar)
Required readings DONNAN, HASTINGS; WILSON, THOMAS M. 1998. ‚Nation, state and identity at international borders‘ in Border Identities. Nation and State at International Frontiers. Donnan, Hastings; Wilson, Thomas M. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-41.
Required podcasts Borders. BBC 4: Thinking Allowed
Required documentary film The Border Fence (dir. Nikolaus Geyrhauter, 2018) Synopsis: In October 2006, the United States government decided to build a 700 mile fence along its Mexican border. Three years and 3.1 billion dollars later, award-winning director Rory Kennedy investigates the impact of the project, revealing how its stated goals--containing illegal immigration, cracking down on drug trafficking, and protecting America from terrorists--have given way to unforeseen consequences.
Recommended learning resources BOURDIEU, PIERRE. 1991. Identity and representation. Elements for a critical reflection on the idea of region. In: Language and Symbolic Power, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. CHAVEZ, Leo R. 2006. Spectacle in the Desert. The Minuteman Project on the U.S-Mexico Border. FARMAN, Abou. (2017) The Political Aesthetics of Border Walls, Anthropology Now, 9:3, 3-5. GUPTA, Akhil – FERGUSON, James. 1992. Beyond „Culture“: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7(1): 6-23.
Supporting learning materials for distance learning § video and podcast § Prezi / PowerPoint presentation § test
Assignment
A. Listen to the first 15 minutes of the podcast Borders from BBC 4 Thinking allowed series (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dgyp) and answer the questions: What is the difference between borders and frontiers? How do you understand the statement on the holy trinity of people - state - and territory? Is the borderless world a utopia or dystopia? Why?
B. Watch the video on Wagah Attari border closing ceremony (). Find more information about the ceremony and explain what we can observe in the video clip. From your answer should be evident you have read required reading for today's lecture (DONNAN, HASTINGS; WILSON, THOMAS M. 1998. ‚Nation, state and identity at international borders‘, in Border Identities. Nation and State at International Frontiers. Donnan, Hastings; Wilson, Thomas M. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-41).
Team-work for 3-4 students. The scope of the work (A+B): 1000 words max. Deadline: xxx
Watch the documentary and answer following questions: 1. What are the motivations of the social actors in the dispute with the Brennerpass / Passo del Brenner fence? 2. Some sociologists (Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certau, James Scott) distinguish between "strategy" and "tactics". Find more information about these terms and explain, where we can see these concepts in practices depicted in the documentary. 3. Give 3 examples of politics and rituals performing power control at the Austrian-Italian border.
Week 10 Easter Monday, no class
Week 11 Borders and body politics. Crossing external EU border. Surveillance (Jakub Grygar)
Required reading ADEY, PETER. 2009. Facing airport security: affects, biopolitics, and the preemptive securisation of the mobile body. Environment and Planing D: Society and Space (27): 274-295. ANDERSSON, RUBEN. 2014. Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe. University of California Press. Pp. 137 -176.
Required podcasts Surveillance. BBC 4: Thinking Allowed. Biometric Security: Ethnographer´s dilemma. BBC 4: Thinking Allowed.
Recommended learning resources BIERMANN, URSULA. 2002. Performing the Border: On Gender, Transnational Bodies and Technology. Globalization on the Line. Sadowski-Smith, Claudia (eds.) Palgrave. BIGO, DIDIER; GUILD, ELSEPTH. 2005. Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement Into And Within Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp. 49-100. (Please note, this is ".djvu" file, for reading it you have to install a DJVU browser to your computer.) FOLLIS, S. Karolina. 2017. Vision and Transterritory: The Borders of Europe. Science, Technology, & Human Values. XX(X): 1-28. LOW, Setha M. (2016) Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place. New York and London: Routledge.
Week 12 Local communities and the state. Power and resistance. Loyalty and illegality (Jakub Grygar)
Required reading DE GENEVA, NICHOLAS. 2002. Migrant “Illegality” and deportability in everyday life. Annual Review of Anthropology (31): 419-447.
Required podcast
Required video
Recommended learning resources ANTONOPOULOS, GEORGIOS, A. 2008. The Greek Connection(s). The social organizationof the cigarette-smuggling business in Greece. European Journal of Criminology 5(3): 263-288. GLENNY, MISHA. 2008. McMafia. A Crime Without Frontiers. NY: Vintage House.
Documentary Niggers / Niguri (2009, dir. Antonio Martino) The small Calabrian village of Sant'Anna is "invaded" by the "Nìguri" (Blacks in Calabrian dialect). There is a center that is one of the greatest place of reception of immingrants of Europe, that reflects what happens in Italy: fear of the differences, distrust and the doubt of how to welcome the clandestine immigrants that reach our coasts. The people of Calabria, historically defined emigrant, accept unwillingly the cohabitation with the new arrivals, that attend for a long time, and often in vain, a document to be able to live in Italy and that they will very probably live in places like Rosarno, working as slaves.
Week 13 Seminar III: Power and resistance at the EU border (Jakub Grygar)
3. intermediate test
Poslední úprava: Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr., CSc. (05.11.2023)
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