Anthropology of Migration
Code
711001069
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This curricular uni (u.c.) aims to provide the basic theoretical instruments for the study of contemporary migrations, privileging the anthropological perspective. Topics such as transnationalism, diasporas, production of places, citizenship and immigration regimes, long-distance nationalisms, deportation regimes and the production of borders, mobility of objects and food, autochthonousness and allochthony, among others, will be addressed during the semester. At the end of the u.c., the student will be familiar with the main authors working in this area of research, with their respective theoretical debates, but also with several ethnographic contexts (including immigration in Portugal and Portuguese emigration).
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
From theories of modernization to transnationality: a history of anthropological approaches to migration
- Migrations in Chicago and Yucatan: cultural creativity, ecology and the rural-urban continuum
- (Des) tribalization, (de) urbanization and labor migration: continuities and social change
- Theories of dependence and the political economy of migration
- Transnationalisms and diasporas
- National geographies and the \"place\" of refugees
- Studying migrations: methodological dilemmas and specificity of sources
- Frontiers, margins and deportations
- Long-distance nationalisms and politics of the past
- Translocal families and domestic units
- The gender of migration
- Transit materials
- Transnational ritual spaces
- Food landscapes or the production of familiarities and alterities
- In search of \"roots\"
- Multi-culturalims
- Diasporas, migrations and places of belonging
- Cultural citizenship, subjectivities and immigration
- Super-Diversities
Bibliography
Brettell, C, (2000), Theorizing migration in Anthropology. The Cultural, Social and Phenomenological Dimensions of Movement, in C. Brettell and J. F. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, Londres, Routledge, pp. 148-197.
Brettell, C. (2008) Introduction. Race, Ethnicity, and the Construction of Immigrant Identities, in C. Brettell (ed) Constructing Borders / Crossing Boundaries. Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, pp. 1-23.
Brubaker, R. (2015) Grounds For Difference. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press.
Braziel, J.; Mannur, A. (2010) Theorizing diaspora. Malden: Blackwell.
Schiller, N. G.; Basch, L.; Blanc, C. S. (1995) From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 68, nº 1, pp. 48-63.
Vertovec, S. (2007) Introduction: New directions in the anthropology of migration and multiculturalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30 (6), 961-978
Teaching method
The classes will be organized in: a) theoretical exposition sessions; B) sessions of collective discussion around texts and visual materials (ethnographic documentary, photography, multimedia, etc.); C) exercises of exploration of empirical materials brought by the teachers.
Evaluation method
1 - Oral presentation of 1 text of the program in class (20%).
2 - Written work (max 10 pages) presented in class (30%) on one of the points of the program - delivery of the works on 23 May;
The oral presentations of texts and papers will be scheduled for the final 20 minutes of each class.
3 - Essay written in person, without consultation, which will focus on all the material taught and texts presented in class by colleagues (50%) - May 26
4 - Exam - 23 June