The course will focus on three aspects:
1. Understanding human migration in Germany and in comparison to other migration systems in other countries
2. Migrants in urban space through time (patterns, dynamics)
3. Recent global crises influencing international migration trends
The course intends to explore this topic from a transdisciplinary approach with literature, discussions and excursions. In particular, the following questions are in focus:
What is human migration? What defines the German migration system/regime? What are differences and/or similarities to other countries? What are migration trends in Germany and especially in Berlin? How did/does human migration materialize in Berlin’s urban/cityscape? How do current crises influence and shape the international human migration in Berlin/Germany?
To this end, this course also encourages students from non-German nationalities to participate. The participants’ knowledge and experience will bring valuable perspectives to understand, critically study and make sense of Berlin’s cityscape.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
Knowledge
*Understand, describe and identify the core theories and issues of human migration and trends
*Have an overview of different place-specific infrastructures and people/actors interacting with and being present in the different sector and governance of Berlin’s migrant’s cityscape
Academic/Transferable Skills
*Develop, understand and critical reflect research projects
*Communicate and discuss key concepts of the course’s topic, research designs and results
*Working in international and interdisciplinary teams
Competencies
*Read the most recent theoretical and empirical research in the course’s topic
*Apply relevant theories and concepts in independent work to understand and analyze current trends and issues in Berlin’s cityscape
*Using ethno-geographic research methods as an entry point for research and studying topics and problems relevant to societies and communities |
