Universität Wien

240014 VS Tracing Citizenship (3.2.1) (2021S)

Continuous assessment of course work
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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.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The course will start digital. If the Covid regulations allow it, it will change to on-site or hybrid.
Information about the lecture rooms will then follow in time.

  • Friday 05.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 19.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 16.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 30.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 14.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 28.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 11.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In the context of the tightening control of legal entry into the European Union, national asylum systems have become important means for states to ‘manage’ incoming migration fluxes.
This ‘management’, or governance, involves a large variety of different organisations and institutional actors, which operate within evolving legal frameworks. Their staff members, people classified as asylum-seekers or refugees and increasingly volunteers all engage with practices, which (also) relate to notions of citizenship and the state.
Students will conceptualize and pilot their own research projects on an organisation or project in the field of asylum and migration. Through that, they will familiarize themselves with practices in the field and the respective theoretical debates in anthropological literature.
This seminar offers students the opportunity to acquire and improve their writing skills in English, which is central for anthropologists, who increasingly have to navigate an international academic field, that often depends on English as its lingua franca.

Assessment and permitted materials

The seminar will involve lecture elements, class discussions and specific take-home assignments as course work students have to work on during the semester in order to prepare their final papers. Students have to attend class regularly (course attendance of at least 75% of all sessions).
The deadline for the term papers is 31 July 2021.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

participation (30%), take-home assignments (30%) and final paper (40%).

Examination topics

Presentation, written papers, engagement in discussions

Reading list

Marshall, Thomas H. 1950. “Citizenship and Social Class.” In Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays, 1–85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Anderson, Bridget. 2019. “New Directions in Migration Studies: Towards Methodological de-Nationalism.” Comparative Migration Studies 7 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0140-8.
Wimmer, Andreas, and Nina Glick-Schiller. 2002. “Methodological Nationalism and beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences.” Global Networks 2 (4): 301–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0374.00043.
Ça?lar, Ay?e, and Nina Glick Schiller. 2008. “‘And Ye Shall Possess It, and Dwell Therein’: Social Citizenship, Global Christianity, and Non-Ethnic Immigrant Incorporation.” In Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States, edited by D. and C. B. Brettell Reed-Danahay. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004.
Ça?lar, Ay?e. 2015. “Citizenship, Anthropology Of.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, edited by James D. Wright, 2nd editio, 22:637–42. Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-8177(08)00021-1.
Feischmidt, Margit, Ludger Pries, and Celine Cantat. 2019. Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe. Edited by Margit Feischmidt, Ludger Pries, and Celine Cantat. Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe. eBook: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92741-1.
Isin, Engin F. 2009. “Citizenship in Flux: The Figure of the Activist Citizen.” Subjectivity 29 (1): 367–88. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2009.25.
Isin, Engin F. 2008. “Theorizing Acts of Citizenship.” In Acts of Citizenship, edited by Engin F. Isin and Greg M. Nielsen, 15–43. London and New York: Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181608x380237.
Rygiel, Kim, Ilker Ataç, Anna Köster-Eiserfunke, and Helge Schwiertz. 2015. “Governing through Citizenship and Citizenship Form Below. An Interview with Kim Rygiel.” Movements Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 1 (2): 1–19.
Soysal, Yasemin Nuho?lu. 2012. “Citizenship, Immigration, and the European Social Project: Rights and Obligations of Individuality.” British Journal of Sociology 63 (1): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01404.x.

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