240018 VS Contemporary Anthropology of Forced Migration (3.2.2.) (2023S)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Participation at first session is obligatory!The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mi 01.02.2023 00:01 bis Mo 20.02.2023 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Mo 13.03.2023 23:59
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max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.
- Freitag 03.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 17.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 24.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 31.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 21.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 05.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 12.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 19.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 26.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 02.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 09.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 16.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 23.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
- Freitag 30.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Midterm Exam, Friday 28.04.2023 = Students will orally discuss and present the topic and main argument/hypothesis of the final paper that they will be developing throughout the semester.Final exam, Friday 30.06.2023 = Students are expected to write a 15.000 to 20.000-characters paper (about 6 or 7 pages, Times new Roman 12, 1 ½ spacing) on one of the topics discussed in class, engaging the course’s core literature (found below). This topic must be accepted by the lecturer as per the midterm exam.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The midterm weights 40/100 and the final exam 60/100. The passing grades for this class are the same for any class at KSA. Students can earn extra points for class participation.
Prüfungsstoff
Knowledge of how questions present in the readings or presented in class can it be put in practice to examine a current topic of the author's choice (for example, the war in Ukraine) is required for the midterm exam. The final exam will require the student to discuss their chosen topic (in agreement with the professor) by comparing more than one author and positioning themselves in relation to the question at stake.
Literatur
The reading list will consist of short excerpts (for example "introduction" or "conclusion") of some of the following references (*the remaining references are supplementary and not obligatory reading - see assigned reading for each class in the subtitle “schedule” bellow):Agier, Michel. 2008. On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today. Cambridge: Polity Press.Barbar, Zahra. 2020. Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East. London: Hurst & Company.Brettell, Caroline and Hollifield, James. 2015. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. New York: Routledge.Chatty, Dawn. 2014. Anthropology and Forced Migration. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-85.Colson, Elizabeth. 2003. Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response. Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 2003, pp 1-18.Fassin, Didier. 2007. "Humanitarianism as a politics of life". Public Culture, 19(3), p. 499-520.Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando. 2014. Introduction: Refugee and forced Migration Studies in Transition. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 01-22.Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among the Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Meyer, Birgit and van der Veer, Peter (eds.). 2021. Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. Bloomsbury.Partridge, William L. and Halmo, David B. 2021. Resettling Displaced Communities: Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement. New York: Lexington Books.Sandvik, Kristin Bertoga. 2022. The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Unpacking the Politics of Pet Exceptionalism. International Migration, 00: 1-13.Ticktin, Miriam e Feldman, Ilana. 2010. In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care. Durham: Duke University Press.Özge Biner and Zerrin Özlem Biner. 2021. Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Waiting in a Turkish Border Town. Social Anthropology, 29, 3 831–846.
Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2022. Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Bielefeld: transcript Publishing.
Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2022. Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Bielefeld: transcript Publishing.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Mi 01.03.2023 18:48
This course goes beyond questioning classic definitions of refugee, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and immigrants by discussing the extent to which forced migration can be considered a field of study distinct from the anthropology of migration. Furthermore, it analyses the broad spectrum of forces shaping the contemporary flow of refugees around the world. In doing so, it puts forced migration in Europe in geographical and historical perspective as a way of illustrating how the anthropology of forced migration and (im)mobility can be an effective tool to explain forced migration processes world-wide.
To understand situations of forced migration we must consider the processes that led to displacement and expropriation, the experiences of forced migrants, and how their arrival impact host societies. Public debate in Europe has been significantly marked by Eurocentrism, but several essential transversal themes emerge from questioning other contexts. The war in Ukraine brought yet another dimension to the refugee debate in Europe, for once again most forced migrants in Europe are Europeans. Where would most refugees and refugee camps be in the world? How to understand cases of prolonged refuge, such as the Palestinian one, if the very essence of the refugee concept is its eminently transient character? What is the role of humanitarianism and humanitarian actors vis-à-vis host states and the principle of nation state sovereignty? How has the war in Ukraine been affecting European and non-European narratives and engagements with forced migration world-wide, and particularly vis-à-vis the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe, proclaimed in 2015, when asylum seekers are mostly Muslims coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq?Objective
To present and discuss the field of forced migration from an anthropological perspective and discuss contemporary global processes of forced migration. The course addresses topics such as humanitarianism, refuge/exile, displacement, dispossession and immobility by considering social, historical and political events. It focuses on the literature on the anthropology of forced migration with emphasis contemporary publications.