Universität Wien

240017 VS Migration and Asylum systems: Configurations of governance, (il)legality and citizenship (3.2.2) (2018W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!
Moodle

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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. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

ATTENTION: changed dates!

  • Monday 08.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 15.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 22.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 29.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 26.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 05.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Friday 07.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 15.01. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 21.01. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 28.01. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

As immigration control to the European Union has increased considerably, the channels for legal entry into European receiving countries have been numbered down to but a few. In this context, asylum systems have therefore become important means for states to govern incoming migration fluxes of ‘third country nationals’. How can we conceive of everyday practices within the institutions of asylum systems as practices of governance, through which specific relations between migrants and their receiving states are produced? Is it useful to think of these relations in terms of citizenship? Which role do legal provisions play in the practical production of these relations? How and for which purposes do different actors recur to the law as a source of power?
In this seminar, students will familiarize themselves with respective literature from the field of legal anthropology and the anthropology of citizenship. They further have to relate their theoretical understanding to empirical observations as they conceptualize their own research projects, which serve as the basis for their final paper.

Assessment and permitted materials

The seminar will involve lecture elements, class discussions and specific take-home assignments as course work students have to produce 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).

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

All texts will be available on moodle

Preliminary literature list:

Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, and Julia Eckert. 2009. 'Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: Law and Governance between Past and Future.' In Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling. On the Governance of Law, edited by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, and Julia Eckert. Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate.
Çaglar, Ayse. 2015. 'Citizenship, Anthropology Of.' In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, edited by James D. Wright, 2nd editio, 22:63742. Oxford. doi:10.1016/S1474-8177(08)00021-1.
Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. 2009. 'Reflections on the Anthropology of Law, Governance and Sovereignty.' In Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law, edited by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, and Julia Eckert, 3159. Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate.
Eckert, Julia, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Brian Donahoe, and Christian Strümpeli. 2012. 'Introduction: Law’s Travels and Transformations.' In Law Against the State. Ethnographic Forays into Law’s Transformations, edited by Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, Christian Strümpeli, and Zerrin Özlem Biner, 122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Genova, Nicholas De. 2002. 'Migrant ‘Illegality’and Deportability in Everyday Life.' Annual Review of Anthropology 31 (2002): 41947. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085432.
. 2013. '‘We Are of the Connections’: Migration, Methodological Nationalism, and ‘Militant Research.’' Postcolonial Studies 16 (3). Taylor & Francis: 25058. doi:10.1080/13688790.2013.850043.
. 2016a. 'The European Question. Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe.' Social Text 34 (3): 75102. doi:10.1215/01642472-3607588.
. 2016b. 'The ‘native’s Point of View’ in the Anthropology of Migration.' Anthropological Theory 16 (23): 22740. doi:10.1177/1463499616652513.
Hess, Sabine, and Henrik Lebuhn. 2014. 'Politiken Der Bürgerschaft. Zur Forschungsdebatte Um Migration, Stadt Und Citizenship.' Sub/Urban. Zeitschrift Für Kritische Stadtforschung 2 (3): 1123.
Krause, M. 2008. 'Undocumented Migrants: An Arendtian Perspective.' European Journal of Political Theory 7 (3): 33148. doi:10.1177/1474885108089175.
Lebuhn, Henrik. 2013. 'Local Border Practices and Urban Citizenship in Europe.' City 17 (1): 3751. doi:10.1080/13604813.2012.734072.
Malkki, Liisa H. 1995. 'REFUGEES AND EXILE: From ‘Refugee Studies’ to the National Order of Things.' Annual Review of Anthropology 241 (1): 495523.
Shore, Cris, and Susan Wright. 2011. 'Introduction. Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility.' In Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power., edited by Susan Wright, Cris Shore, and Davide Però, 125. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

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