Immigration, Ethnicity and Multiculturality
Code
722081062
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This curricular unit aims at providing students with:
a) knowledge of concepts and theories of international migration;
b) understanding of ethnicities as historically and socially embedded social constructions, in the context of multicultural societies;
c) ability to analyze and do research on concrete phenomena of ethnicity in migratory contexts;
d) ability to accurately communicate research results in the thematic domain of the course.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Space, time and volume of migration. Past and present experiences and forecast
A. BASIC CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
2. Theories of migration
3. Theories of ethnicity
4. Immigration, identity and multiculturality
B. SPECIFIC THEMES
5. Ethnicity marketization
6. School and migration
7. Politicization of ethnicity
8. Politicization of migration
9. State and identity building
10. Pan-ethnicity and mass-media
Bibliography
Appadurai, A., Dimensões culturais da globalização, Lisboa: Teorema, 2004
Castles, S. & M. Miller, The Age of Migration, The Guilford Press, 2009
Castles, S., Globalização, transnacionalismo e novos fluxos migratórios, Lisboa: Fim de Século, 2005
Gans, H. J., Symbolic ethnicity: the future of ethnic groups and cultures in America, in H. Gans, N. Glazer, J. Gusfield e C. Jenks(org.), On the making of Americans. Essays in honour of David Riesman, Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 1979, pp.193-220
Marques, M. M.(org.), Estado-Nação e Migrações Internacionais, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2010
Massey, Douglas, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pelegrino, J. Edward Taylor, Worlds in motion: understanding international migration at the end of the millennium, Oxford & Nova York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Portes, A., Estudos sobre as Migrações Contemporâneas, Lisboa: Fim de Século, 2006
Vermeulen, H., Imigração, integração e a dimensão política da cultura, Lisboa:Colibri, 2001
Teaching method
Some classes are based on theoretical exposés and others on practical exercises. The latter will consist in students´ presentation and discussion of their projected essay or research plan.
Evaluation method
Evaluation and weighting for the final grade: continuous evaluation of the student´s participation in classes (25%); presentation in class of the projected essay or work plan (25%); written essay or work plan (50%).