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3.90.119 - Academic writing
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3.90.135 - Climate Change and Migration (Film Series)
- Norbert Henzel, Dipl.-Chem.
- Carlotta Kühnemund
Termine am Dienstag, 04.10.2016, Dienstag, 11.10.2016, Dienstag, 18.10.2016, Dienstag, 01.11.2016, Dienstag, 08.11.2016, Dienstag, 15.11.2016, Dienstag, 22.11.2016, Dienstag, 29.11.2016 18:00 - 21:00
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Outline
Climate change has been a vocabulary for over 30 years now. The scholarly body of literature and analysis of climate change embraces a broad variety of positions ranging from the depiction of climate change as a mere elaborate hoax (for example to win votes) to arguments like if it is happening than it is not anthropogenic but connected to/caused by natural geological transformations that have occurred on this planet coming to estimations with very high numbers of affected people.
In migration studies concepts of climate-induced migration are currently less concerned with the question regarding the existence of climate change but rather with the people’s causes and motivations to move and in how far it can be defined as an effect of climate change, whether this movement is temporary or permanent and if those refugees stay within one country or move across international borders in the context of climate change.
In this regard, climate change and migration seem to look like cause and effect. But there is more complexity to it: while developments of global climate and its effects have numerous feedback effects; causes, motivations and possibilities of migration are not separable and might have more levels of interference.
The destruction of Earth as an inhabitable planet is a filmic subject at least since the 1970’s (e.g. Trumbull’s “Silent Running”); a decade ago Roland Emmerich anticipated the irreversibility of Climate change (“The Day After Tomorrow”)—interestingly enough only a small but extremely mobile part of humanity escapes extinction in his dystopia. Over the past decade also a number of documentary films took up the issue in order to raise awareness for the phenomenon and its effects. For this film series we will screen and discuss eight films that this way or the other deal with the debate around climate change. All films—implicitly or explicitly—are also concerned with the societal challenges and effects of climate change, including the movement of people.
Suggested readings
• Bettini, Giovanni (2013) Climate Parbarians at the Gate? A critique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees’. Geoforum 45 (2013) pp 63-72.
• Gemenne, Francois (2015) One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’. Forced Migration Review 49 pp 70-71.
• Kelly, Elaine (2013) A Rough Climate for Migration. alternate routes 23 (2012) pp 59-84.
• Martin, Susan (2015) The state of the evidence. Forced Migration Review 49 pp 12-13.
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3.90.143 - Discourse Analysis
Termine am Dienstag, 01.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00, Mittwoch, 02.11.2016 16:00 - 20:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
Outline
Discourse Analysis is – as much as its area of interest, i.e. discourse itself –not a clearly defined concept. Much rather, whoever decides to analyze a topic or object from a discourse analytical perspective will find varying options to do so. From critical discourse analysis to linguistic discourse analysis, the methods are various and manifold. Nevertheless, the origin of this academic method has been commonly attributed to Michel Foucault and his work on human sexuality and madness, as well as on institutions for punishment and reform. Foucauldian discourse analysis – as we will conceptualize it – provides a method for bringing together statements made in different media (such as books, newspapers, comics, television and film, radio, theater, performances) in a structured manner. In our course we will briefly locate this discourse analytical approach in the context of other approaches available. In order to remain practice-oriented, we will develop a concrete set of questions which you can apply in your project and bring to whatever field you wish to intervene in – be it the realm of politics, culture or the social, if you are confronted with historical or contemporary material, if you deal with government statements, newspaper articles, television series, movies or performances.
Workload: about 50 pages of reading material, discussion of material, experimental application of discourse analytical method on selected material or within your own projects.
Readings
Foucault, Michel, 1986. The Discourse on Language. In Hazard Adams and Leeroy Searle (Ed.), Critical Theory since 1985. Talahassee: Florida State University Press, pp.148-162.
Bionote
Daniel Šíp is lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies.
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3.90.145 - Travelling the Borderland - (Undocumented) Migration in Cinema
- Jan Kühnemund
- Dr. Katharina Hoffmann
Termine am Mittwoch, 19.10.2016, Mittwoch, 26.10.2016, Mittwoch, 02.11.2016, Mittwoch, 09.11.2016, Mittwoch, 16.11.2016, Mittwoch, 23.11.2016 18:00 - 20:00
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3.90.146 - Women, Mobility and Migration
Termine am Mittwoch, 30.11.2016 16:00 - 20:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
workshop by Prof. Dr. Samita Sen
Outline
In recent years, many activists working to prevent trafficking of women and children have recognized the thin line between protecting women against trafficking and contributing further to their immobilization, especially in societies where regulation of women’s mobility is a key element of patriarchal control. This paper will address the ways in which migration and trafficking get entangled, especially in relation to women and children. It will be argued that in this story, a crucial role is played by the nature/degree of intermediation. The paper will address the problem of trafficking of women with reference to the history of their work and migration with a focus on (colonial) Bengal.
The nineteenth century was a period of major streams of migration within and out of India. It will be argued that patterns and modes of recruitment established at that time have had consequences for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From that time on, women’s migration has been understood primarily in relation to marriage. This has tended to obscure two important questions we need to ask about women’s migration. First is the question of inter-linkages between marriage migration and laboring arrangements then and now. In recent years this particular issue has come to the forefront with demonstrated links between bride trafficking and deployment of household labour in states such as Haryana. This has important consequences for how we consider the issue of trafficking; many scholars and activists have tended to focus indeed, some argue vociferously in favour of such a focus on ‘immoral trafficking’, i.e., trafficking for sex work as the most exploitative, as a social ‘evil’ and deserving most attention. Such arguments also date back to the late nineteenth century in India and they received considerable attention in the inter-war period and in the aftermath of partition in the 1940s and 50s. Given the long and phased history of these inter-relationships, I propose a framework, which includes issues of women’s work (including sex work), marriage, migration and trafficking, to explore some key questions regarding women’s mobility.
In addition to the obvious, there are also other issues which have eluded research for instance, the elision of marriage migration with family migration, and the distinction between migration for marriage and migration after marriage The second is perhaps of even more importance the way in which the overwhelming evidence of marriage migration in rural India (given traditions of village exogamy) has overshadowed other forms of women’s migration, especially that for work. This is acquiring increasing importance in the light of mounting evidence of increasing women’s migration within the country. Despite all this women continue to be perceived as particularly immobile, with marriage as an ideologically weighted anchor and the feminine as coeval with a timeless rural past, and by that very reason, women’s migration as either exceptional or illegitimate (or trafficking). These stereotypes, which fly in the face of evidence, have often directed scholarship as well as misdirected official policy.
Readings
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Bionote
Samita Sen teaches at the Department of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University. Earlier she was the vice-chancellor of the Diamond Harbour Women’s University. She holds expertise in the field of gender and labour. Her book „Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry” is highly acclaimed.
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3.90.147 - FÄLLT AUS workshop by C.S. Lakshmi and Sumathi Murty (TBC)
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3.90.148 - FÄLLT AUS Exhibiting Migration, Museum Friedland
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3.90.149 - FÄLLT AUS! Forced Migration and Issues of Transitional Justice
Termine am Mittwoch, 30.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
Workshop by Prof. Dr. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury (Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata)
In 2014, the number of refugees in the world rose to 14.4 million. A further 5.1 million registered refugees are cared for in sixty-odd camps across West Asia by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which was set up in 1949 to care for displaced Palestinians. Latest figures from Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) estimate that, more than 19.3 million people were forced to flee their homes by disasters in 100 countries in 2014. Hundreds of thousands more are still displaced following disasters in the previous years. Over and above, since 2008, on an average 26.4 million people per year have been displaced from their homes by disasters brought on by natural hazards. This is the equivalent to one person being displaced every second. Similarly, at least 10 million people around the world are denied a nationality; they are usually referred to as "stateless people". In spite of torture, rape and killing of innocent people, and "well-founded fear of persecution", which very often lead to the flight of masses for weeks, months, or years, or even generations from their homeland. However, the refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and stateless persons are usually kept out of the purview of the initiatives to deal with the past injustices through measures such as trials, truth commissions, and restitution and/or compensation programmes. In recent times, more and more researchers are devoting attention to the links between transitional justice and displacement.
A collaborative research between the Brookings Institution-London School of Economics and the International Centre for Transitional Justice on Internal Displacement have already brought together researchers and practitioners from across the globe to explore the ways in which particular transitional justice measures have responded to displacement. They have also contributed necessary insights from experiences in the countries, like Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Bosnia, Kosovo, Turkey, Iraq, Liberia and Timor-Leste. Therefore, more and more researchers are of the opinion that, transitional justice measures can support durable solutions to displacement. This kind of establishing linkages between displacement and transitional justice draws on a variety of disciplinary perspectives including political science, law, anthropology, and social work. But, in this context, there is a need for further research on the decision-making, advocacy and organisational strategies employed by different groups of displaced persons. After all, public participation in the negotiation and implementation of reparations and reconciliation programmes may help to shape favourable public opinions towards redress, repatriation and reintegration of the displaced persons. On the other hand, there is a serious dearth of information on how public participation influences the success of reparation and reconciliation programmes, and how programmes informed by popular participation fare in comparison to those that are not. The proposed workshop would prefer to address some of these issues so that we can explore the possibilities of offering durable solution to the problem of forced displacement.
Bionote
Professor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhuri is the vice chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He is a commentator of Indian and South Asian politics. His research interests include politics of globalization, democracy, development, displacement and human rights in South Asia. He is among the few experts on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that India has.
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3.90.151 - FÄLLT AUS Nexus between migration and HIV/AIDS: Does it matter?
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Carried out by Joyceline Ntoh Yuh, PhD candidate
Outline
Migration has been significantly linked to not only the mobility of people but also diseases. Migration is therefore perceived as risk factor for the widespread of diseases. The assumption here is that migrants are more likely to move with disease from their country of origin to the receiving countries. Specifically migrants also carry with them their sociocultural behaviors that increase the likelihood of transmission of HIV. Migrants are more likely to have multiple sexual partners, have limited access to social services and few social support networks. During the workshop we shall together unravel the relationship between migration and HIV based on diverse theoretical underpinnings. Finally we shall examine the implications of migration in relation to HIV.
Readings
Brockerhoff, M. and Biddlecom, A.E., 1999. Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya. International Migration Review 33 (4), p.833-856.
Cassels, S., Jenness, S.M. and Khanna, A.S., 2013. Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for Migration and HIV Transmission Dynamics. AIDS Behav.
Deacon, H., 2005. Understanding HIV/Aids Stigma – A Theoretical and Methodological Analysis. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Haour-Knipe, M. et. al., 2013. HIV and “People on the Move”: Six Strategies to Reduce Risk and Vulnerability during the Migration Process. International Migration 52 (4), p.9-25.
Hunt, C.W., 1996. Social vs Biological: Theories on the Transmission of Aids in Africa. Soc. Sci. Med. 42 (9), pp.1283-1296.
McMahon, T. and Ward, P.R., 2012. HIV among immigrants living in high-income countries: a realist review of evidence to guide targeted approaches to behavioural HIV prevention. Systematic Reviews 1 (56), p. 1-23.
Weine, S.M. and Kashuba, A.B., 2012. Labor Migration and HIV Risk: A Systematic Review of the Literature. AIDS Behav No. 16, p.1605-1621.
Zimmerman, C., Kiss, L., and Hossain, M., 2011. Migration and Health: A Framework for 21st Century Policy-Making. PLOS Medicine 8 (5), p.1-7.
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3.90.153 - Islamophobia in European Migration Regimes
- Dr. Katharina Hoffmann
- Dr. Ulrike Koopmann
Termine am Freitag, 02.12.2016 10:00 - 20:00, Samstag, 03.12.2016 11:00 - 15:00
The prominence of the trope "Islam" as religious as well as cultural monolithic entity indicates recent shifts in migration and identity discourses not only in Europe as a supranational formation, but also in its nation states. Reinforcing already historically established orientalist and colonial paradigms, "European values" are seen as irreconcilable with worldviews linked to Islam. The debate about the membership of "Muslim Turkey" in the "Secular-Christian European Union" can be read as a striking example for such discourse patterns (see for the debate, e.g., Casanova 2004).
However, in contrast to former discourses the drawings of (imaginary) borderlines between "we" and "the others" currently go far beyond the constructions of "occident and orient" as geopolitical spaces. The religious-cultural denoted term "Muslim migrant" as substitution of the former ethnic-national denoted term "guest worker" or "immigrant worker" signifies newly established borders within European nations (Yilmaz 2012). In times of the "war against terror" the essentialising of Muslims includes the binary classification on the one hand of "extremist"/ "fundamentalist"/ "pious Muslims" and on the other hand of "moderate Muslims".
Those referred to as "moderate Muslims" who emphasize the necessity of reforming Islam and their adherence to liberal secular norms are regarded as migrants who could be integrated in European societies. Nevertheless, such ascriptions are not fixed; they rather are floating in current discursive settings. In other words, according to widespread negative images in politics, media, film as well as in social science "moderate Moslems", too, can easily be relabeled and be perceived as a (potential) threat for the coherence and/ or security of European societies. In particular, the emphasis of Muslim opposition to gender equality and liberal sexual policies plays an important role as marker of difference and is supported by all political strands.
The shifts in European discourses on migration and identity have been analysed in social science as "Islamophobia", as a current mode of racialising or racialized governmentality (Tyrer and Sayyid 2012). The social scientist Levent Tezcan introduces the term "Homo Islamicus" in his analysis of processes of subjectivation as a result of the interplay between governmental techniques, public ascriptions and the claims and self-ascriptions of Muslim organizations (Tezcan 2007, 2012). Besides politics of exclusion or suspicion, there exist also inclusive politics of "islamization" of migrants which operate via empowerment of religious identity and actors.
The workshop, public lecture and film presentation address concepts and case studies which try to grasp the current social and political developments from different perspectives - analysing policies, public debates and visual representations in European countries. Additionally, a closer look shall be taken at which strategies could or should be employed to interrupt patterns of labeling as well as essentialist constructions of groups of people as eligible subjects for fixed conceptions of European identity/ identities (in often silent alignment with neoliberal democratic forms of governance and formations of social existence).
Programme
Friday, 2 December
10:00 – 18:00 Workshop
18:00 h Public Lecture
Liberal-Secular Power and the Predicaments of Knowledge Production: The case of the 'Muslim Question' in Europe; Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin)
Abstract: Starting with the current incitement to discourse on Islam and Muslims in Europe my talk critically addresses the nexus of knowledge and power involved in what has been framed as Europe’s "Muslim Question". More specifically, I am concerned with the relationship between epistemological structures of discourses on Islam and Muslims in Europe and the related status of the knowing subject who is entitled, sometimes even compelled to speak the truth.
I argue that in order to understand the discursive explosion” on Islam and Muslims in Europe, we need to understand the racial and liberal-secular grammars of knowledge production enabled by nation-state frameworks, in which deviant (religious) minorities are incorporated into a civilizing project that either normalizes or exceptionalizes difference.
Extending recent scholarship on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, I claim that we need to critically engage the powers of liberal-secular governmentality which produce normative frameworks of "proper religion" and "proper knowledge". Dwelling on scholarship of secular studies, I thus suggest looking at the entanglements between modes of power operative in liberal-secular nation-state structures and the embodied attachments to the secular, as articulated both in social practices and in epistemological underpinnings of knowledge production bound to and enabled by these very structures.
Saturday, 3 December 2016, 11:00 - 15:00
Film Presentation & Discussion
Timbuktu, 97 min, France & Mauritania 2014, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
The workshop organizers will introduce the film and provide space for discussion after the presentation. Snacks and drinks will be available.
Readings
• Akkus, Birol, 2016. The Cologne Incidents: Sexism and misogyny, or us versus them? VocalEurope. European Magazine, [online] Available at: <http://www.vocaleurope.eu/the-cologne-incidents-sexism-and-misogyny-or-us-versus-them> [Accessed 8 August 2016]. Please read online.
• Amir-Moazami, Schirin, 2016. Secular Power and the Predicaments of Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe. In: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Available at: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/3980 [Accessed 11 August 2016].
• Betz, Hans-Georg, 2013. Mosques, minarets, burqas and other essential threats: the populist right's campaign against Islam in Western Europe. In: Wodak, Ruth, Majid KhosraviNik and Brigitte Mral, eds. Right-Wing Populism in Europe. Politics and Discourse. London et al.: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp.71-87.
• Casanova, José, 2008. The problem of religion and the anxieties of European secular democracy. In: Gabriel Motzkin and Yochi Fischer, eds. Religion and democracy in contemporary Europe. London: Alliance Publishing Trust, pp.63-74.
• Said, Edward, 2000 [1978], Orientalism. In: Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds. The Edward Said Reader. New York: Vintage Books, pp.63-113.
• Stockle, Silke and Marion Wegscheider, 2016. After Cologne: Sexism is not an imported product. Available at: <http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article36961> [Accessed 8 August 2016].
• Taoua, Phyllis, 2015. Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu and its controversial reception. In: African Studies Review, 58 (2), pp.270-278.
• Tezcan, Levent, 2008. Governmentality: Pastoral Care and Integration. In: Ala Al-Hamarneh and Jörn Thielmann, eds. Islam and Muslims in Germany. Leiden: Brill, pp.119-132.
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3.90.156 - Queer Migrations
Termine am Montag, 31.10.2016 09:30 - 13:30, Montag, 31.10.2016 16:00 - 20:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
workshop by Prof. Karma Chavez
Outline
Over the past two decades, a growing field of queer migration studies has intervened in the heteronormativity of nearly all approaches to the study of international migration. Ranging from historical accounts of how racialized gender and sexuality impact all elements of migration process and policy to anthropological, literary and sociological considerations of queer migrant experiences of belonging and homemaking, to rhetorical and cultural studies discussions of queer migration politics, this growing field has changed the way we understand migration and migrant subjectivity.
This seminar draws on recent scholarship mostly published in North America and proposes an eclectic consideration of two of the major thematics within queer migration studies—the queer politics of migration and queer migrant belonging—by asking the following kinds of questions: 1) in what ways are migration politics queer, and in what ways has such a case for a queer migration politics or the queer politics of migration been over or under-stated? 2) what else might it mean to suggest that migration politics are queer? 3) what might be gained from looking outside of North American and European contexts, which have predominated in the field? 4) how have questions of belonging shaped the field of queer migration studies? 5) what has been most importantly illuminated in our understanding of queer migrant subjectivity and what may have been obscured or ignored as a result? 6) what are the relationships among politics and belonging that need further consideration?
Obligatory Readings
Part 1: Queer Politics of Migration
• De Genova, Nicholas. "The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on 'Illegality' and Incorrigibility." Studies in Social Justice 4, no. 2 (2010): 101-26.
• Haritaworn, Jin, Adi Kuntsman, and Silvia Posocco. "Murderous Inclusions." International Feminist Journal of Politics 15, no. 4 (2013): 445-52.
• Luibhéid, Eithne. "Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line between Legal and Illegal Status." GLQ 14, no. 2-3 (2008): 289-316.
• Portillo Villeda, Suyapa G., Eileen J. Ma, Stacy I. Macías, and Carmen Varela. "The 'Good,' the 'Bad,' and the Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent." Diálogo 18, no. 2 (2015): 21-36.
• Seitz, David K. "Limbo Life in Canada's Waiting Room: Asylum-Seeker as Queer Subject." Environment & Planning D: Society and Space (2016): 1-19.
• White, Melissa Autumn. "Documenting the Undocumented: Toward a Queer Politics of No Borders." Sexualities 17, no. 8 (2014): 976-97.
Part 2: Queer Migrant Belonging
• Bhaumik, Munia. "Humiliation as Technique: Neoliberalism and the Noncitizen's Body." Diálogo 18, no. 2 (2015): 91-104.
• Borges, Sandibel. "Not Coming out, but Building a Home: An Oral History in Re-Conceptualizing a Queer Migrant Home." Diálogo 18, no. 2 (2015): 119-30.
• Fobear, Katherine. "Queer Settlers: Questioning Settler Colonialism in LGBT Asylum Processes in Canada." Refuge 30, no. 1 (2014): 47-56.
• Selections from: Haritaworn, Jin. Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places. London: Pluto Press, 2015.
• Lee, Edward Ou Jin, and Shari Brotman. "Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada." Canadian Review of Sociology 48, no. 3 (2011): 241-74.
• Ochoa, Juan D. "Shine Bright Like a Migrant: Julio Salgado's Digital Art and Its Use of Jotería." Social Justice 42, no. 3-4 (2016): 184-99.
Bionote
Karma R Chávez is an associate professor of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies and affiliate in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Department of Communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her scholarship is primarily informed by queer of color theory and women of color feminism. Methodologically, she is a rhetorical critic who variously utilizes textual and field based methods. She is interested in studying social movement building, activist rhetoric, and coalitional politics. Her work emphasizes the rhetorical practices of groups marginalized within existing power structures, but she also attends to rhetoric produced by powerful institutions and actors about marginalized folks and the systems that oppress them (e.g., immigration system, prisons etc.). In 2013, she published her first book, Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, which examines coalition building at the many intersections of queer and immigration politics in the contemporary United States. She has also co-edited two volumes, Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method and Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies. She is working on a new manuscript, AIDS Knows No Borders, which explores AIDS activism and organizing on the issue of immigration and within immigrant communities during what is often described as the height of the AIDS pandemic in North America (1981-1995). She is also working on a collection of essays about the role of the university in its community, tentatively titled, The Reluctant Academic.
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3.90.158 - FÄLLT AUS ! The Bind of Age in Stephen Castles' Age of Migration
Termine am Dienstag, 29.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
workshop by Prof. Dr. Ranabir Samaddar
Outline
Stephen Castles has almost singlehandedly reshaped the field of migration studies through his stupendous writings in the last forty years or so. A combination of sociology, political economy, and global studies backed by immense scholarship marks his writings. They are mostly dry, factual, minimally theoretical, and strive to be balanced in the sense of being careful to be holistic by not excluding any factor. His co-authored The Age of Migration is a compulsory text book in migration studies across the globe, particularly in the countries of the north. The Age of Migration appearing in the early years of the last decade of the last century carries the imprint of Castles’ approach and works. It is difficult to find any big loophole in the successive editions of The Age of Migration (the fifth edition coming out in 2013).
Does this mean that The Age of Migration does not bear the footprints of time? Or, his writings do not show a trajectory? One way to look at this question will to be to see if in trying to be holistic, he ignored any required emphasis on certain factors or elements. It is said one requires at times pushing thoughts to extreme.
From this perspective, it will be important to examine (a) if through the long years of writings beginning with the co-authored Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe published by the Institute of Race Relations in London in 1973 he has maintained as the main analytic framework for studying migration trends the combination of race, class, and political economy that he proposed in that book; (b) if the category of “culture” gradually displaced political economy as a critical tool of analysis in his writings; (c) consequently, if ethnicity became increasingly a conceptual tool of greater importance; and finally (d) whether in proposing our age as the “age of migration” he implied any historical comparison with other ages, yet on the other hand he refrained from using historical tools in understanding migration in critical historical phases of at least capitalism.
Stephen Castles shows acute awareness of how migration regulation policies have shaped over time and has asked if the two events – the incident on 9/11 in 2001 and the financial crash of 2008 have impacted on migratory trends in our time. Yet a study of migration control practices has not invoked in his writings the need to analyse the relation between forced migration and migration, or the dynamics of institutional practices of security and control, or finally the need to employ the concept of border as a method to study migration and labour. Yet in the second decade of the twenty first century, the notion of migration is being made more receptive to other realities by the use of related notions such as mobility, borderlands, displacement, etc. Concepts move in groups or families. They are like signifiers working in tandem and suggest reality that cannot be understood by a single term. Shall we then say that Stephen Castles’ works prepare an empirical map which is deceptive, which disguises, displaces, and reconfigures other realities of migration?
All these questions call for a post-colonial engagement with this great scholar’s writings. This paper will be an attempt towards that task.
Readings
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Bionote
Ranabir Samaddar belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. He has worked extensively on issues of migration and forced migration, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and post-colonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. The much-acclaimed The Politics of Dialogue was a culmination of his long work on justice, rights, and peace. His recent political writings published in the form of a two-volume account, The Materiality of Politics (2007), and The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation-state, and have signaled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking. His co-authored work on new town and new forms of accumulation Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (Routledge, 2013) takes forward urban studies in the context of post-colonial capitalism. He is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group.
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3.90.159 - Turkish Rap in Germany – A workshop on a music style that emerged among young migrants
Termine am Dienstag, 01.11.2016 14:00 - 18:00, Mittwoch, 02.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00
Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen des Studiengangs EMMIR ist aber für andere Studierende der Universität geöffnet. Für Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an emmir@uni-oldenburg.de
Carried out by Dr. Verda Kaya (Berlin)
Outline
The history of German–Turkish rap began in the 1980s when teenagers from Turkish backgrounds started to imitate this new American music style. Later, the youth developed indigenous styles aligned with their own cultural and social background by combining different songs and languages and rapping about their specific local, national and transnational situation. Rap music has become a medium through which these youth express their opinions, emotions, and affiliations as well as their position relative to other social groups.
In this workshop, by analyzing selected songs and video clips from different periods, we will investigate how political and social circumstances and the position of German–Turkish youth within German society have affected the rap music produced by these artists. I will draw examples from my own research, but students are also welcome to contribute their own experiences and perspectives.
Readings
• Bower, Kathrin (2011): Minority Identity as German Identity in Conscious Rap and Gangsta Rap: Pushing the Margins, Redefending the Center. German Studies Review 34/2, 377- 398.
• Eksner, Julia (2006) : Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German - Turkish Youth in Berlin – Kreuzberg. Berlin: LIT Verlag Berlin, 7-14 & 30-50.
• Elias, Norbert (1994): The Established and the Outsiders – A Sociological Enquiry into Community Problems. London: Sage Publicstions, p XV-LII.
• Hall, Stuart (1993): Question of cultural identity . In: Hall, Stuart & Davod Jeöd & Tony McGrew (eds): Modernity and ist Futures. Polit Press, 291-309.
• Hall, Stuart (1990): Cultural Identity and Diaspora; URL: http://people.ucsc.edu/~jizamora/Hall_Cultural_Identity_and_Diaspora.pdf; 222-237.
• Kautny, Oliver (2013): Immigrant HipHop in Germany: The Cultural Identities of Migrants. In: Nitzsche, Sina & Walter Grünzweig (eds): Hip-Hop in Europe – Cultural Identities and Transnational Flows. Berlin: LIT, 405-419.
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Verda Kaya is working as a freelance researcher in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina in 2015. Her main areas of research are popular culture, urban anthropology, migration, transnationalism, music, HipHop, and ethnicity in Berlin and Istanbul. She is the author of two books (in German): HipHop zwischen Istanbul und Berlin: Eine (deutsch-)türkische Jugendkultur im lokalen und transnationalen Beziehungsgeflecht and Lehmburgen und Wellblechdächer: Architektur und Lebensform bei den Dagara in Ghana.
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3.90.161 - Follow the Migrant: Methodological Challenges of a Mobile Research Design
Termine am Dienstag, 29.11.2016, Donnerstag, 01.12.2016 14:00 - 18:00
Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen des Studiengangs EMMIR ist aber für andere Studierende der Universität geöffnet. Für Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an emmir@uni-oldenburg.de
Carried out by Dr. Joris Schapendonk (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Outline
The recent paradigmatic shift from the ‘sedentary’ to the ‘mobile’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) has led to several methodological challenges for social scientists. Main questions are: 1) how can we grasp the mobility of people/goods/ideas? And; 2) does mobility research inevitably imply that researchers have to be mobile too? This workshop critically discusses the opportunities and pitfalls of mobile methodologies. The first part reviews a variety of mobile research designs and mobile methods used in different disciplines. The second part specifically focuses on opportunities and pitfalls of a longitudinal research aiming to understand the dynamics of the migration trajectories of sub-Saharan African migrants who move to and in the European Union. Finally, I reflect on some ethical dilemmas that have emerged in my mobility research (e.g. does the following of migrants increase the traceability of their trajectories, and what does this mean?).
Readings
Theory
• Cresswell, T. (2010). Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and planning. D, Society and space, 28(1), 17-31 (14pages)
• Walters, W. (2014). Migration, vehicles, and politics. Three theses on viapolitics. European Journal of Social Theory, 1368431014554859. (19pages)
• Levitt, P. and Jaworsky (2007): Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends, Annual Reviews Sociology, 33: 129-156 (27pages)
Methodology
• Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual review of anthropology, 95-117. (23 pages)
• Hage, G. (2005). A not so multi-sited ethnography of a not so imagined community. Anthropological theory, 5(4), 463-475. (12pages)
Empirical papers
• Schapendonk, J., & Steel, G. (2014). Following migrant trajectories: The im/mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en route to the European Union. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), 262-270. (8 pages)
• Mountz, A. (2011). Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states. Gender, Place & Culture, 18(3), 381-399. (17 pages)
Bionote
Joris Schapendonk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Planning at Radboud University Nijmegen. His current research focuses on the dynamics of African migration, the border politics of the European Union, and the geography of grassroots welcoming acts towards undocumented migrants. From the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, he received a Veni-grant (2015-2018) for his current research on the intra-EU mobility of African migrants. His work has been published in, among others, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2014), Migration Studies (2014) and Population, Space and Place (2014).
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3.90.321 - Reflecting on Knowledge Production as/in Critical Migration Studies
- Dr. Lydia Potts
- Prof. Dr. Martin Butler
Mittwoch: 12:00 - 16:00, wöchentlich (ab 09.11.2016)
12-14 Advanced Theory Course
14-16 Colloquium
a) Advanced Theory Course: Reflecting on Knowledge Production as/in Critical Migration Studies (Martin Butler & Lydia Potts)
In this course, students will be made familiar with recent approaches to critical migration studies through a discussion of a selection of key theoretical texts. In this discussion, a particular focus will be on the discursive - 2 - and performative fabrication and dissemination of knowledge on migration and the migrant subject as well as on alternative knowledges and epistemologies (commonly labeled as ‚Southern Theory’), with the help of which phenomena and processes of migration and cultural mobility can be critically revalued from a so far marginalized perspective. Through their engagement with different concepts of and approaches to the production of knowledge, students will also be encouraged to critically reflect on their own positionality and situatedness, which informs and shapes their very individual learning agenda and research interests during their studies.
b) Research Colloquium (Lydia Potts)
The colloquium will focus on
- the research dimension of the internship
- the preparation of the MA-thesis (Proposal)
- the networking with other thematically relevant scholars/research clusters in Oldenburg
- (optional: towards a PhD – perspectives and options)
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3.90.323 - FÄLLT AUS Lektürekurs
- Jan Kühnemund
- Johannes Stock
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