Migration Spaces: from Local Integration to Migratory Archipelago - 2nd semester
Code
722081075
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Dulce Pimentel
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a)To discuss key concepts related to the global movement of migrants and their organization;
b) To analyze mobility issues and the integration of migrants at different scales;
c) To reflect on the role of migrants as links between the hosting and the sending societies and to see how migrants can contribute to the development of the origin societies;
d) Ability to formulate research proposals on multi-ethnic cities;
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
1. The contemporary migratory framework: changes and continuities
1.1. The major world migratory systems: rises and downfalls
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, students and \"sun seekers\"
1.5. Chain migration, family reunification and circular 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. Intervening in multi-ethnic cities: the planning of public space and housing
Bibliography
Arango, J. (2003) La explicación teórica de las migraciones: luz y sombra, Migración y Desarollo, 1, Oct.2003.
Baubock, R.; Faist, Th. (2010) Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, theories and methods. IMISCOEAmsterdam University Press.
Castles, S., Haas, H., Miller, M. (2013). The age of migration, 5th edition, Palgrave-Macmillan.
Kempen, R. Van & Özüekren, A.S. (1998). Ethnic segregation in cities: new forms and explanations in a dynamic world, Urban Studies, nº35 (10), pp.1631-1656.
Malheiros, J.; Fonseca, L. (coord.) (2011). Acesso à habitação e problemas residenciais dos imigrantes em Portugal. Observatório da Imigração, 48.
Peixoto, J. et al. (2016).Regresso ao futuro - A nova emigração e a sociedade portuguesa. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Withol de Wenden, C. ; Benoit-Guyod, M. (2016). Atlas des migrations. Un équilibre mondial à inventer. Paris: Autrement.
Teaching method
Lectures on the course´s major topics, and presentation and discussion of students´ essays. Field trip to Martim Moniz, the most multicultural area in Lisbon.
In class teaching.
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%).