Migration Spaces: from Local Integration to Migratory Archipelagos
Code
722081075
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Alina Esteves, Jorge Malheiros, Maria Dulce Pimentel
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Ability to discuss key concepts related to the global circulation of migrants and their organization;
b) Ability to formulate research proposals on multi-ethnic cities;
c) Ability to advise political and administrative bodies in policymaking regarding intervention.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. The contemporary migratory framework: changes and continuities
1.1. The major world migratory migration systems: rises and falls
1.2. Refugee flows and their meaning
1.3.The growing importance of the movement of skilled professionals
1.4. Other movements: feminization of migration, movement of students and \"sun seekers\"
1.5. Knock-on migration, family reunification and back-and-forth migration
2. Diasporas and transnational communities
2.1.Translation communities and the Nation-state: tensions and benefits
2.2.The cultural and economic significance of transnational communities
2.3. The Portuguese overseas a transnational community?
3. Migrants and the metropolis
3.1. The ethnic dimension of the contemporary metropolis
3.2. The spatial segregation of migrants: the issue of ghettoes and ethnic neighbourhoods 3.3.The development
of economically-based ethnic enclaves
3.4. Activity in multi-ethnic cities
4. Social Innovation and inclusion of migrants.
Bibliography
Arango, J. (2003) La explicación teórica de las migraciones: luz y sombra Migración y Desarollo, 1, Oct.2003.
Arbaci, S. (2002) Patterns of Ethnic and Socio-spatial Segregation in European Cities: are welfare regimes making a difference? Fonseca, L. et al. (eds.) Immigration and Place in Mediterranean Metropolises, FLAD, Lisboa, pp. 83-116.
Baubock, R.; Faist, Th. (2010) Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, theories and methods. IMISCOEAmsterdam University Press.
Castles, S.; Miller, M. (2009) The age of migration, 4ªed. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Cohen, R. (1997) Global Diasporas: an introduction, UCL Press, UK.
Malheiros, J.; Fonseca, L. (coords.) (2011) Acesso à Habitação e Problemas Residenciais dos Imigrantes em Portugal. Observatório da Imigração.
Withol de Wenden, C. ; Benoit-Guyod, M. (2009) Atlas mondial des migrations. Paris: Autrement.
Teaching method
Lectures introducing the major topics of the course, and presentation and discussion of selected readings by the students. A study visit to the Martim Moniz, the most multicultural area in Lisbon.
Evaluation method
1. Term paper (70%), either a review article or an empirical study. Papers are presented and discussed during the last sessions of the curricular unit
2. Attendance, participation and presentations in class (30%).