Anthropology of the Chosen Cultural Phenomena I: Anthropology of migration

elective

2nd cycle

1. International migration as a modern phenomenon – its complexity and conceptual boundaries

2. Polish migration history [visiting the “We’re all migrants” exhibition]

3. Migration to Poland – a local context

4. Between assimilation and integration – different models of immigrant adaptation in a receiving society

5. Immigrant integration – determinants, dimensions, and indicators

6. Refugee studies and the International Refugee Regime

7. Nation-building processes in diasporas

8. Transnational perspective – multiple homes and loyalties

9. Perspective of life course – different generations of immigrants

10. Gender perspective

11. Religion and integration processes

12. Privileged migrants – going first class?

13. Deterritorialised identities – displaced identities

Students:

1) gain the basic knowledge of:

- contemporary migration phenomena in a global and local context

- the key categories and concepts developed within the migration studies

- ways of interpretation of the migration and integration issues on the anthropological ground

2) gain the understanding:

- that mobility is an integral part of a human condition

- that human identities are not integrally ascribed to places – that they are changeable, processual, and hybrid

3) gain the skills necessary to:

- critically analyse migration phenomena from an anthropological perspective

Class 2:

Szejnert M.

2009 Wyspa Klucz, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak, s. 13-17 i 37-41.

Class 3:

Kaźmierkiewicz P.

2006 Uwarunkowania integracji cudzoziemców w Polsce, w: M. Bieniecki, P. Kaźmierkiewicz, B. Smoter, Integracja cudzoziemców w Polsce. Wybrane aspekty, Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych, s. 43-56.

Class 4:

Trevena P.

2008 Teorie i doktryny integracji imigrantów. Doświadczenia tradycyjnych i nowych krajów imigracji, w: A. Grzymała-Kazłowska, S. Łodziński (red.), Problemy integracji imigrantów. Koncepcje, badania, polityki, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 93-122.

Class 5:

Grzymała-Kazłowska A.

2008 Między jednością a wielością. Integracja odmiennych grup i kategorii imigrantów w Polsce, Warszawa: Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami, s. 98-120.

Class 6:

Malkki L. H.

1995 Refugees and Exile: From "Refugee Studies" to the National Order of Things, “Annual Review of Anthropology” 24, s. 495-523.

Class 7:

Bloch N.

2011 Urodzeni uchodźcy. Tożsamość pokolenia młodych Tybetańczyków w Indiach, Monografie FNP, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, s. 344-394.

Class 8:

Metykova M.

2010 Only a Mouse Click Away from Home: Transnational Practices of Eastern European Migrants in the United Kingdom, “Social Identities” 16: 3, s. 325-338.

Class 9:

Ben-Ze’ev E.

2005 Transmission and Transformation: The Palestinian Second Generation and the Commemoration of the Homeland, w: A. Levy, A. Weingrod (ed.), Homelands and Diasporas. Holy Lands and Other Places, Stanford: Stanford University Press, s. 123-139.

Class 10:

Lutz H.

2002 At Your Service Madam! The Globalization of Domestic Service, "Feminist Review” 70, s. 89-104.

Class 11:

Hamel Ch.

2002 Muslim Diaspora in Western Europe: The Islamic Headscarf (Hijab), the Media and Muslims’ Integration in France, “Citizenship Studies” 6: 3, s. 293-308.

Class 12:

Fechter M.

2007 Living in a Bubble: Expatriate’s Transnational Spaces, w: V. Amit (ed.), Going First Class? New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, s. 33-52.

Class 13:

Maalouf A.

2002 Zabójcze tożsamości, przeł. H. Lisowska-Chehab, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, s. 7-12 i 23-54.