Universität Wien

240099 VS Anthropology of migration: the Italian experience of West African transnationalism (P4) (2012W)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Compulsory attendance in the first unit!

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Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 04.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 06.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 10.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 11.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 13.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Drawing from the experience of West African transnational migration and the Italian politics of immigration (Riccio 1999-2011), the course aims at introducing the following topics: Cultures of Migration, Transnationalism, Home Town Associations and Co-development, Multiculturalism, Racism, the Second Generation and Citizenship. The Lectures will provide the students with a conceptual framework and a "shared language" with which to work during seminars, which want to offer more ethnographic examples.

More precisely, we will discuss the transforming "cultures of migration", the situationally oriented forms of identification and affiliation within Italian multicultural society (Grillo Pratt 2002), the ambivalent nuances surrounding migrants’ "double engagement" (Grillo Mazzucato 2008) and the Italian citizenship debate (Riccio 2011).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

The lectures will provide some key concepts of the anthropological perspective on migration:
- An attention towards socio-cultural change (declined nowadays by relying on images of hybridity, "creolisation", "métissage", Hannerz 1996; Amselle 2001);
- An ethnographic focus on social relations and (kin, ethnic, religious, but also policy)
networks (Brettell 2000; Vertovec 2009);
- From situational perspective towards ethnicity and ethnic identity to a discursive approach
to multiculturalism (Eriksen 2006; Baumann 1999);
- A critical reading of various forms of cultural racism (cultural fundamentalism, rhetoric of
autochthony; Stolcke 1995; Banks, Gingrich 2005; Geschiere 2004) and racialization (Fassin 2000)
- The awareness of the strong connections between immigration and emigration contexts
(from rural-urban to transnational spaces; Epstein 1968; Sayad 1999; Glick Schiller et al. 1992-2011);
- Sensitivity towards the transformation of the context of origin and the development of
"cultures of migration" (Gardner 1995; Cohen 2007);
- The expansion of the notion of Citizenship (see differently Ong 2003; Werbner 2010; Brettell Reed-Danhay 2011)

The Seminars will focus on
- Senegalese culture of migration and the representation of Europe (Riccio 2005; Degli Uberti 2012)
- Local Policies and Migrant Associations’ Transnational and Civic Engagements (Riccio 2008; 2011b; Caponio 2005)
- Italian Racisms from cultural fundamentalism to racialization (Riccio 2011a)
- Citizenship and the second generation (Riccio Russo 2011; Colombo et al. 2011)

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39