300692 Transnational Studies (RC: Transnationalisierung und Sozialanthropologie) (S) (SoSe 2025)

This class focuses on social formations emerging out of sustained cross-border processes (transnational social spaces), their consequences (transnationalization), and corresponding social practices (transnationality). We discuss (1) conceptual work dealing with cross-border perspectives on issues relating to migration, citizenship and social inequalities, and (2) work-in-progress which broadly deals with questions of the global social order. At the core are issues of transnational social policy, international migration and integration, inequalities and equalities, democracy and citizenship. This class is meant to help doctoral candidates to conceptualize their thesis papers, conduct research and write the final version of their dissertation. Among other things students learn to select relevant literatures, develop a conceptual framework and a research design, evaluate and interpret empirical data.
The core of the class is the discussion of work-in-progress by all participants. The papers discussed are accepted dissertation proposals (for beginners), or drafts of individual chapters from the ongoing dissertation (for advanced dissertation writers).

Bibliography

Faist, Thomas. 2019. The Transnationalized Social Question: Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.