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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Petra Ezzeddine, Ph.D. (22.09.2020)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Petra Ezzeddine, Ph.D. (18.03.2024)
Course Description The aim of the course is to develop students’ knowledge of gender perspective on contemporary migration and refugee mobilites in Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. We will pay a special attention on the transformation of family and gender roles in migration, transnational care practices and interesectionality in migration studies. We will focus on feminist migration studies which are not limited just to a descriptive account of the different gendered experience of women and men with migration: they go further and analyse the structural inequalities that are behind the everyday experience of migrants: migration policies, production of (il)legality, practices of surveillance and control, securitization, biopolitics of migration, political economy of waiting, international migration regime and its contradictions; structures of gender inequalities and care and transnational social rights´ gap and development. Methods of Instruction Class discussions, film screenings. critical readings Learning Objectives By the end of the course, students will have: - the knowledge of how gender perspective has developed in migration studies - the ability to use migration and mobility as an analytical tool - the awareness of the intersectional perspective in migration - the awareness of the methodological nationalism - the knowledge of the specific character of migration dynamics in CEE and the EU Assessment and Final Grade 1. Active participation in classes (to attend class regularly, to participate in the class discussions and to complete all reading responses on time): 10% 2. Paper presentation (oral and written) based on class readings: 20 % 3. Final exam: written in class test: 70%
Course Requirements
1. Written, in-class final exam testing the student’s grasp of concepts and case studies discussed in the class (based on class readings). 2. Informative papers ( answers to questions) based on required readings are due every class. It will be uploaded to the storage box in MSTeams. Deadline: Satirday till 20:00.Code of TeamsBox: 3. Oral paper presentation based on the class readings (20 minutes). Grading Scale 100 - 90 % : 1 89 - 80% : 2 79 - 75 % : 3 74% and less : x
Course programme: Week I Introduction (orientation class)
Week II 26.2.Borders and Bordering I. - borders and power, border spectacle, migration industry, political economy of waiting, bodies in move Required Reading : Andersson, R.2014.Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality, Ametican Anthropologist 116(4): p.795-809. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Week III (4.3.) Borders and Bordering II. -feminities and masculinities on borders, cathegorization of bodies, biopolitics, moral economies of mobilities Required Reading: Tyszler, Elsa. 2019. ‘The Performative Effects of the European War on Migrants. Masculinities and Femininities at the Moroccan-Spanish Border.’ Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 20 (1): 40–6. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week III (11.3.) Migration Apparatus and Gender I. - migration apparatus, moral economies of migration policies, gender and reproduction and nationalism Required Reading : Maskens M. 2018. Screenings for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms of Bureacratic Feminism,pp. 74-101, In: eds. Groes Ch. and N.T.Fernandez: Intimate mobilities: Sexual Exonomies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate. World, New York: Berhahn Books. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week IV (18.3.) Documentary film screeing „Marriage“ and discussion with film director Katarina Hager. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week V (25.3.) Migration Apparatus and Gender II. -LGBTI migration, asylum apparatus, humanitarian arena Required Reading : Camminga B. 2021. ´Go Found Me´: LGBTI asylum seekers in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya,pp.131-148 , In Jacobsen, Karlsen and Khosravi (eds), Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration. London: Routledge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week VI (1.4. )Seasonal Holiday-class is cancelled! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week VII. (8.4.) Required Reading: Fedyuk, O. 2021. Moral economies of intimacy. Narratives of Ukrainian solo female migrants in Italy, In. Pine F. Haukanes H. Intimacy and Mobility in the Era of Hardering Borders.Manchester: Manchester University Press. Screening of a documentary move (film director Fedyuk O,: Olha´s Diary) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week VIII (15.5) -transnational care practices. transnational motherhood/fatherhood, „social orphants“, moral economies of remmitances, global care chains
Required Reading: Sinnati G. 2014. Masculinities and Intersectionality in Migration: Transnational Wolof Migrants Negotiating Manhood and Gendered Family Roles, In D.H., Gasper D. Handmaker J. Bergh, S.I. (eds): Migration. Gender and Social Justice Perspectives on Human Insecurity (str.215-226), Springer:Heidelberg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week IX Social Reproduction and migration (22.4.) -care migration, borderscapes of care in CEE, political economy of care migration Required Reading: Ezzeddine, P. 2024. ‘Care Bonds in The Times of Covid-19’. In: Aulenbacher, Brigitte; Lutz, Helma; Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa; Schwiter, Karin (Eds.) ’Home Care for Sale. The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe’ (127–141). London: SAGE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week X Social Reproduction and migration II. (29.4.) - ageing in migration: social citizenship, relocare, gare crisis and care fixes Required Reading: Kolářová K. 2015. “Grandpa lives in paradise now’: Biological Precarity and Global Economy of Debility”, In Feminist Review, Special issue on Debility and Frailty: (75-87). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week XI Gender, MIgration and Global Climate Change (6.5.) Required Reading: -climate change, gender consenquences Chindarkar, N. 2012. Gender and climate change-induced migration: proposing a framework for analysis, In Environmental Research Letters 7 (2 ): 1-7. Dewan, C.2023. Climate refugees or labour migrants? Cimate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh,In The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50 (6):2339-2360. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week XII 22.4. Gender in Migration: Engagement, Activism and Advocacy (13.5.) -no reading -presentation and discussion with a representative of Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI) http://www.migrace.com/en/mission/projects -no reading ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Week XIII TEST 1st term (20.5.) |