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The seminar will introduce the students to the sociological study of the European integration process regarding migration and mobility issues. In that sense, the seminar will address one of the four key principles underlying the European integration process, i.e. the free movement of people, and analyze its causes and consequences. Special attention will be paid to the evolving conditions that cause and shape the intra-European migration and mobility. The seminar will also focus on how the European societies are affected by the growing cross-border movement of people.

Accordingly, the seminar will include topics closely related to the intra-European migration and mobility, such as the history of migration and mobility in the EU, vertical and horizontal Europeanization processes, social transnationalism and cosmopolitanization of European societies, developing of EU citizenship, European identity formation and EU support, transnational social practices and networks, translational groups formation, and reproduction of social inequalities.

Although the seminar will be held in English, it is possible to use additional bibliography in German. Reading the course literature and an active participation in the discussions during the seminar are expected. The seminar will conclude with a home exam.

Favell, A., (2008): Eurostars and Eurocities: free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe. Oxford: Blackwell.

Favell, A., & Guiraudon, V. (Eds.) (2011): Sociology of the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan.

Fligstein, N. (2008): Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. OUP Oxford.

Kuhn, T. (2015): Experiencing European Integration: Transnational Lives and European Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mau, S., & Verwiebe, R. (2010): European Societies: Mapping structure and change. Policy Press.

Mau, S. (2010): Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds beyond the nation-state. Routledge.

Recchi, E. (2015): Mobile Europe: the theory and practice of free movement in the EU. Palgrave Macmillan.

Recchi, E., & Favell, A. (Eds.) (2009): Pioneers of European integration: Citizenship and mobility in the EU. Edward Elgar Publishing.