This course tackles main theoretical and empirical debates in the sociological research on migration. The course provides the students with knowledge on patterns and trends of contemporary international migration and its driving factors. We will also deal with the consequences of migration with specific focus on the process of immigrant incorporation, migration and transnationalism, and the relation between migration and concepts such as race, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, identity and inequality.
The course aims at familiarizing students with the most recent research on migration in sociology and at training them to disentangle new research avenues and design empirical protocols that potentially contribute to the field. Sessions will organize around interactive discussions based on students' understanding of issues that are currently central to the field such as: the recent migration crisis, migration and the transformation of citizenship, migration and identity politics, migration and global inequality, migration and within-country inequality, migration and group-boundary reconfiguration.
Mirna SAFI
Séminaire
English
2 to 3 readings will be assigned in each session.
Autumn 2023-2024
The students are asked to hand in a short memo on a specific topic related to migration. The memo should include a literature review and should sketch a research design that lends itself to research on the topic chosen by the students. Students can organize in groups of 2.
Each student should also present one of the readings assigned in every session in a short oral presentation.
Castles and Miller, 2009, The Age of Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edition
Alba, Richard, and Victor Nee. 2003. Remaking the American mainstream. Assimilation and contemporary immigration. Cambridge, Massachussetts and London, England: Harvard University Press.