Seminar in Migrations, Ethnicity and Transnationalism
Code
73200104
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
At the end of the seminar the students will be able to:
a) Develop theoretical, analytical and methodological skills and competencies that would allow them to design and write a PhD research project within the thematic area of Migrations, Ethnicity and Transnationalism;
b) Draw up (an initial) available literature review related to the research problem they have outlined;
c) Acquire the ability to integrate their research issues within the main debates and analytical viewpoints which characterise this anthropological area of study, in a sustained and critical manner.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The students should develop their research projects leading to the design of their PhD dissertation in Anthropology, Migrations, Ethnicity and Transnationalism. This process will be mentored by all supervisors/researchers involved and students attendance to the course. The common learning features aim at sorting out possible interconnections between theoretical and conceptual idioms and relevant methodologies for the drawing up of current research projects.
The seminar includes sessions to discuss work in progress, being selected according to this área of specialization and the students research topics.
Specific analytical perspectives will be reviewed as part of tutorial mentoring.
Bibliography
BARTH, Frederick, 1969, “Introduction“, Barth, F. (ed) Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. The Social Organization of Cultural Difference, Bergen-Oslo, Universitets Forlaget, London, George Allen & Unwin
BASCH, Linda, Nina GLICK SCHILLER & Cristina Szanton BLANC, 1994, Nations Unbound. Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialised Nation-States, Basel, Gordon and Breach Publishers
DENZIN, Nornam K & Yvonna LIncoln. (eds), 1994, Handbook of Qualitative Research, London, Sage.
GANS, Herbert, 1996, “Symbolic Ethnicity: the Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America”, Sollors, W. (ed.), Theories
of Ethnicity. A Classical Reader, London, Mac Millan Press
LEVITT, Peggy, 2001, The Transnational Villagers, Berkeley, University of California Press
PORTES, Alejandro, 1999, “Os Filhos dos Emigrantes. A Assimilação Segmentada e as suas Determinantes”, Portes, A., Migrações Internacionais. Origens, Tipos e Modos de Incoporação, Oeiras, Celta,
Teaching method
Transferring of general competences within a classroom context (problematization, research design, types of tools and scenarios for managing and implementing research); tutorial supervision, discussion activities designed to enable the acquisition of competencies and habits of reflection, intersubjective critique and clear expression of knowledge. Workshops with invited speakers who have done research in the domain of the current projects.
Evaluation method
Students participation and presentation of the final draft of the thesis project.