300654 Migration infrastructures and the role of brokerage (S) (WiSe 2021/2022)

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This course will provide an overview of the swiftly growing body of literature on the role of brokers and brokerage for the facilitation of regular and irregular migration as well as the criminalisation of certain facilitators. The first part of the course will engage with some classical studies of migration industries and discuss a number of historical examples of brokers from Asia and the Americas. Specific attention is directed to conceptualisations of (ir)regularity and of state-(non)citizen-interactions. The second part of the course will discuss a number of contemporary case studies regarding the role and particularly the sentencing practices of people smugglers and traffickers. The third and final part of the course then scrutinises international responses to those phenomena in order to problematize brokerage within the international legal and humanitarian context.

Bibliography

Boissevain, Jeremy.1969. Patrons as Brokers, Sociologische Gids, 16 (6): 379–386.
Faist, Thomas. 2014. Brokerage in Cross-Border Mobility: Social Mechanisms and the (Re)Production of Social Inequalities. Social Inclusion 2 (4): 38-52.
Fechter, Anne-Meike 2019. Brokering Transnational Flows of Care: The Case of Citizen Aid. Ethnos DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2018.1543339.
Granovetter, M.S. 1973. The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology 78: 1360–1380.
Jong, Sara de. 2018. Brokerage and Transnationalism: Present and Past Intermediaries, Social Mobility, and Mixed Loyalties. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 25 (5): 610–628.
Lindquist, Johan A. 2015. Anthropology of Brokers and Brokerage. International Encyclo-paedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 2: 870-974.
Lindquist, Johan A., Biao Xiang & Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2012. Introduction: Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Chang-ing Political Economy in Asia. Pacific Affairs 85 (1): 7-19.
McKeown, Adam M. 2008. Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, Columbia University Press.
Suggested readings
Molland, Sverre. 2012. Safe Migration, Dilettante Brokers and the Appropriation of Legality: Lao-Thai “Trafficking” in the Context of Regulating Labour Migration, Pacific Affairs, 85 (1): 117-139.
Sanchez, Gabriella. 2015. Human Smuggling and Border Crossings, Routledge, London.
Spaan, Ernst. 1994. Taikongs and Calos: The Role of Middlemen and Brokers in Javanese International Migration. International Migration Review 28 (1): 93-113.

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