Migration Spaces: from Local Integration to Migratory Archipelago - 1st semester
Code
722081075
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
-- Docente a contratar --, 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.
d) Understand the situation and the dynamics of Portugal´s position in the global migration framework
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
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
Arbaci, S. (2002). Patterns of ethnic and socio-spatial segregation in European cities: are welfare regimes making a difference? in 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. IMISCOE-Amsterdam University Press.
Castles, S., Haas, H., Miller, M. (2014). The age of migration. 5th edition, Palgrave-Macmillan.
King, R. (2012). Theories and typologies of migration: an overview and a primer. Working Papers in International Migration and Ethnic Relations 3/12, Malmö University.
Malheiros, J.; Fonseca, L. (coords.) (2011). Acesso à habitação e problemas residenciais dos imigrantes em Portugal. ACIDI.
Peixoto, J. et al. (2016). Regresso ao futuro: a nova emigração e a relação com a sociedade portuguesa. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Withol de Wenden, C. (2016). Atlas des migrations. Un équilibre mondial à inventer. 4ª ed., 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 Mouraria and Martim Moniz, the most multicultural area in Lisbon.
Evaluation method
1. Term paper (65%), either a review article or an empirical study. Papers are presented and discussed during the last sessions of the curricular unit;
2. Written essay about an article on lectured topics (20%);
3. Attendance, participation and presentations in class (15%).