Syllabus del corso
Obiettivi formativi
Il corso parte dall'assunto che la sociologia sia da intendere come l'insieme dello studio e dei metodi per descrivere l'azione sociale. Per questo gli obbiettivi formativi sono: 1) offrire un quadro delle più importanti teorie e approcci alla migrazione; 2) riflettere sul fenomeno della migrazione e riuscire ad applicare metodi di ricerca adeguati; 3) offrire agli studenti il sapere critico necessario per comprendere le migrazioni contemporanee, per approcciare le problematiche migratorie e per riflettere su possibili soluzioni ed essere consci delle istanze concrete e pratiche che incontrano le migrazioni nelle dinamiche di vita quotidiana, con una particolare attenzione agli aspetti di welfare e alla moltiplicazione delle diseguaglianze.
Contenuti sintetici
Teorie sulle migrazioni
- Controllo dei confini e politiche di confine
- Teorie sulla cittadinanza e sull'integrazione
- Analisi dei dati sulle migrazioni
- Politiche e welfare della migrazione
- Black lives matter? Diseguaglianze e discriminazioni e nuove sfide della social membership
Programma esteso
Il corso si svilupperà in 4 parti: la prima parte è basata sull'analisi delle teorie classiche e contemporanee sulla migrazione, una riflessione sul concetto di confine e una breve storia della cittadinanza e dei modelli di integrazione. La seconda parte rifletterà sulle pratiche di accoglienza, di gestione dei centri e il ruolo delle ONG nel primo soccorso. La terza parte si svilupperà attorno alla descrizione del fenomeno della migrazione nelle società di arrivo, approfondirà le sue trasformazioni e i modelli di policy e di governo delle mobilità umane e gli effetti in termini di welfare e diseguaglianze. Infine, l'ultima parte sarà un focus sulle proteste del Black live matter, sulle diseguaglianze correlate alla cosiddetta "linea del colore" e alle forme e strutture coloniali e post-coloniali, sulla forme di discriminazione e sulle sfide della social membership negli Stati Uniti e in Europa.
Parte 1: Da dove vengo? Il migrante
Chi è il migrante? La migrazione come fatto sociale totale.
Chi è il migrante? Migrazioni forzate, migrazioni economiche, richiedenti asilo e migrazioni ambientale
Territorio, territorialità, confine
La cittadinanza: storia, problemi, sfide
I modelli di integrazione: assimilazione, multiculturalismo e superdiversità
Parte 2: Perché le persone migrano?
Dati e periodizzazione delle migrazioni
Politiche migratorie: modelli e casi
Economie, networks e reti sociali della migrazione
Diseguaglianze, welfare e migrazioni
Parte 3: Migration policies: how to regulate migration?
Selettività del processo migratorio e controllo delle frontiere
La "Crimmigration"
Spostamenti e ricollocamenti dei migranti
Parte 4: Black lives matter? Diseguaglianze e discriminazioni e nuove sfide della social membership
La linea del colore: approcci coloniali e post-coloniali alla discriminazione
Produzione e riproduzione di discriminazione e diseguaglianze: genere, razza, classeBlack lives matter? Il contesto statunitense
Black lives matter? Il contesto europeo e italiano
Riflessioni conclusive: Nuove sfide della social membership
Prerequisiti
Sufficienti capacità e conoscenze della lingua inglese, di logica e di sociologia, ragionevoli capacità comunicative, di apprendimento e di scrittura.
Metodi didattici
Nel periodo di emergenza Covid-19 le lezioni si svolgeranno da remoto asincrono (giovedì), per la durata di 1h e 30, con eventi in videoconferenza sincrona (lunedì), per la durata di 3h, sulla piattaforma Webex al link https://unimib.webex.
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Nel periodo di emergenza Covid-19 gli esami orali saranno solo telematici. Verranno svolti utilizzando la piattaforma WebEx e nella pagina e-learning dell'insegnamento verrà riportato un link pubblico per l'accesso all'esame di possibili spettatori virtuali.
La valutazione si compone di tre aspetti differenti:
- la partecipazione in aula (20%)
- le esercitazioni (10%)
- la discussione orale (70%)
Testi di riferimento
I testi di riferimento saranno tutti disponibili online e condivisi su Moodle con gli studenti.
Saskia Sassen (2013) "When Territory Deborders Territoriality", Territory, Politics, Governance, 1:1, 21-45, DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2013.769895
Hooks, Bell. "CHOOSING THE MARGIN AS A SPACE OF RADICAL OPENNESS." Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, no. 36 (1989): 15-23.
Ambrosini, M. "Superdiversity, multiculturalism and local policies: a study on European cities"- Policy & Politics, 2017
Balibar Etienne, "What is a border?" in Politics and other scene, Verso Books, 2002, pp. 75-87
Balibar Etienne, "The Genealogical scheme: Race or Culture?" Trans-Scripts 1 (2011)
Benhabib, Seyla, Another Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University press, (2005), Chapter: "Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations".
Mezzadra, Sandro and Neilson Brett, "Between inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global space and Borders", Theory Culture and Society 2012, 29: 58
Campesi, Giuseppe. "Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis: Reception, Confinement, and Detention at Europe’s Southern Border." Refugee Survey Quarterly 37.1 (2018): 44-70.
Agier, Michel, "Humanity as an Identity and its Political Effects (A note on Camps and Humanitarian Government)", Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2010, p. 29-45
Calavita, Kitty. “Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant ‘Others.’” Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 30, no. 2, 2005, pp. 401–420.
Bigo, Didier (2002) "Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease." Alternatives: Global Local Political 27:63-92.
Crenshaw, Kimberle "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Hall, Stuart. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, edited by ANTHONY D. KING, NED - New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 19–40.
HALL, Stuart. “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities.” Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, edited by ANTHONY D. KING, NED - New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 41–68
Ulteriori letture suggerite
Bartram, D., Poros, M., and Monforte, P. (2014). Key Concepts in Migration. Sage, London, New York. Chapter 19.Forced migration. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 19.
Chan, Angel. "Superdiversity and critical multicultural pedagogies: Working with migrant families." Policy Futures in Education (2019): 1478210319873773.
Menjívar, Cecilia. 2014. "Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 10(1):353-69.
Weber, Leanne, and Benjamin Bowling (2004) "Policing Migration: A Framework for Investigating the Regulation of Global Mobility." Policing and Society 14(3):195-212.
Learning objectives
Starting from a conception of sociology as the study and the methods for describing human behaviors, the course aims: 1) to offer a review of the most important theories and approaches to migration; 2) to reflect and apply methods of investigation of migration; 3) to offer to the students the necessary critical knowledge to understand contemporary migrations, to address migration’s issues, to reflect on possible solutions and to be aware of concrete and practical issues of migration in everyday life, with a specific focus on welfare and inequalities production and reproduction.
Contents
- Theories on migration
- Border controls and border policing
- Theories on citizenship and integration
- Data analysis on migration
- Migration policies and welfare
- Black lives matter? Inequalities, discrimination and new challenges of social membership
Detailed program
The course will be developed in 4 parts: the first part is based on the analysis of classical and contemporary theories on migration, a reflection on the concept of border and a brief history of citizenship and different models of integration. The second part will be based on welcoming practices, management of retention centers and first aid/role of NGO's. The third part will develop the description of the phenomena in welcoming societies, the transformations of migration, and the models of policing and the effects on welfare and inequalities. The last part will focus on Black lives matter protests, on inequalities related to the so called Color line, and to the colonial and post-colonial structures, on forms of discrimination and challenges of social membership in USA and in Europe.
Part 1: Where I’m from? The migrant
Who ‘s the migrant? Migration as a total social fact
Who is the migrant? Forced migrants, Economic migrant, refugee, climate migrant
Territory, territoriality, border
Citizenship: history, issues, challenges
Models of integration: assimilation, multiculturalism and superdiversity
Part 2: Why do people migrate?
Data and periods of migrations
Migration’s politics: models and cases
Economics and social networks of migration
Inequalities, welfare and migration
Part 3: Migration policies: how to regulate migration?
Choosing migrants/controlling borders
Crimmigration
Displacement and resettlement
Part 4: Black lives matter? Inequalities, discrimination and new challenges of social membership
Color line: colonial and post-colonial theories on discrimination
Production and reproduction of discrimination and inequalities: gender, race, class
Black lives matter? The US case
Black lives matter? The European and Italian cases
Final remarks: new challenges of social membership
Prerequisites
Sufficient educational skills in logic, English, social culture and reasonable capacities in learning, writing and communication.
Teaching methods
During the Covid-19 emergency period, lessons will take place remotely asynchronously (Thursdayt) with synchronous videoconferencing events (Monday) on the Webex platform: https://unimib.webex.
Assessment methods
In the Covid-19 emergency period, oral exams will be telematics only. They will be conducted using the WebEx platform and the e-learning page of the teaching will contain a public link to access the exam for possible virtual viewers.
The evaluation consists of three different aspects:
- classroom participation (20%)
- exercises (10%)
- oral examination (70%)
Textbooks and Reading Materials
All the text will be available on Moodle and shared with the students
Saskia Sassen (2013) "When Territory Deborders Territoriality", Territory, Politics, Governance, 1:1, 21-45, DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2013.769895
Hooks, Bell. "CHOOSING THE MARGIN AS A SPACE OF RADICAL OPENNESS." Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, no. 36 (1989): 15-23.
Ambrosini, M. "Superdiversity, multiculturalism and local policies: a study on European cities"- Policy & Politics, 2017
Balibar Etienne, "What is a border?" in Politics and other scene, Verso Books, 2002, pp. 75-87
Balibar Etienne, "The Genealogical scheme: Race or Culture?" Trans-Scripts 1 (2011)
Benhabib, Seyla, Another Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University press, (2005), Chapter: "Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations".
Mezzadra, Sandro and Neilson Brett, "Between inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global space and Borders", Theory Culture and Society 2012, 29: 58
Campesi, Giuseppe. "Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis: Reception, Confinement, and Detention at Europe’s Southern Border." Refugee Survey Quarterly 37.1 (2018): 44-70.
Agier, Michel, "Humanity as an Identity and its Political Effects (A note on Camps and Humanitarian Government)", Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2010, p. 29-45
Calavita, Kitty. “Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant ‘Others.’” Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 30, no. 2, 2005, pp. 401–420.
Bigo, Didier (2002) "Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease." Alternatives: Global Local Political 27:63-92.
Crenshaw, Kimberle "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Hall, Stuart. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, edited by ANTHONY D. KING, NED - New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 19–40.
HALL, Stuart. “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities.” Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, edited by ANTHONY D. KING, NED - New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 41–68
Ulteriori letture suggerite
Bartram, D., Poros, M., and Monforte, P. (2014). Key Concepts in Migration. Sage, London, New York. Chapter 19.Forced migration. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 19.
Chan, Angel. "Superdiversity and critical multicultural pedagogies: Working with migrant families." Policy Futures in Education (2019): 1478210319873773.
Menjívar, Cecilia. 2014. "Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 10(1):353-69.
Weber, Leanne, and Benjamin Bowling (2004) "Policing Migration: A Framework for Investigating the Regulation of Global Mobility." Policing and Society 14(3):195-212.
Scheda del corso
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Valeria Verdolini