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ECTS Points: 5
Language requirements: min. English B2
Please note that this course starts at 12:00 and ends at 14:00.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In January 2016, The Sun, the most highly read “newspaper” in the UK, published an article with the headline: “Refugee Crisis: Berlin so swamped by migrants that city is in ruins”. Though such hyperbolic claims are often quickly dismissed, they also echo and reiterate fears existing within hegemonic discourses surrounding “migrants” and reflect public consciousnesses about the “crisis” in not only the UK but in Berlin, in Germany and, more generally, the Global North. This interdisciplinary course seeks to contextualize and deconstruct the figure of the migrant using critical interdisciplinary approaches while placing them into wider discussions of the various related “crises” in “raceless”, postcolonial Europe.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
We will
- critically engage with and question, more generally, knowledge, structures, norms, ideologies, “objectivities”, binaries, and categories,
- destabilize and rehistoricize hegemonic notions of the migrant within regional, national and European discourses whether it is policy, law, news, (social) medias, documentaries, or social acts as well as,
- critically reflect on topics while reflecting our own place in the discourse,
- work towards an interdisciplinary, more comprehensive understanding of the figure of the migrant in Berlin and wider Europe.
COURSE ASSESSMENT:
Attendance and active participation, critical reflection journals, one group presentation/discussion facilitators, individual exam, and if applicable, short makeup assignments for missed class. All assignments must be completed to receive credit.
Instructors: Kine Valvik Mitchell, Amber Kepple Jones
Contact: rethinkingthemigrant@gmail.com, office hours by appointment
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| Literatur |
Bhambra, G. 2007. “Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology and the Politics of Knowledge Production” in Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination.
Tamboukou, M. 2017. “Narrative Phenomena: Entanglements and Intra-actions in Narrative Research”
De Genova, N. 2016. “The European Question: Migration, Race, and Post-Coloniality in Europe”.
Dussel, E. "Eurocentricism and Modernity".
Hansen, P. 2002. “European Integration, European Identity and the Colonial Connection”.
El-Tayeb, F. 2008. “‘The Birth of a European Public’: Migration, Postnationality and Race in the Uniting of Europe”.
Michel, N. 2015. “Sheepology: the Postcolonial Politics of Raceless Racism in Switzerland”.
Lentin, A. 2008. “Europe and the Silence about Race”.
Meer, N. 2012. “Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Further readings see Syllabus. |
