300054 Beyond a Border: Modes of Migration and Incorporation (V) (WiSe 2009/2010)

The movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world. If migrants are the central characters in this drama, there are numerous other dramatic personae whose supporting roles are crucial to determining the ultimate course of events. These include the family and friends left behind in the homeland, government officials and employers in both the sending and receiving countries, other immigrants from the homeland who become part of ethnic communities, sympathetic members of religious and other institutions concerned with assisting newcomers, and people who through either organized or spontaneous means express their hostility toward immigrants.

The lecture course is structured along four main areas: The first section of the lecture course will look at immigration flows from the perspective of the history of the modern world. It will review the most influential theories accounting for immigration. Finally, it will examine contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on twenty major immigration-receiving nations in the world. The second section turns to incorporation, to the varied ways that immigrants come to be part of a new society. Much of the literature on this topic is laden with preferences, and thus is and ought are often convoluted. An effort will be made to adjudicate the respective theoretical merits of three concepts that have increasingly come to shape discourse on incorporation: assimilation, transnationalism, and multiculturalism. In the third section we turn to the role of states in shaping immigration. For immigration studies during much of the twentieth century, this remained an underdeveloped field. We focus on two recent developments. The first looks at states as key actors in defining and attempting to structure migratory flows and policies regarding incorporation. Next we turn to a discussion of changes in ideas about citizenship, particularly the expansion of dual citizenship around the globe, both as a reality and as something increasingly permitted by states. The fourth and last section of the lecture course focuses on challenges ahead, such as the understanding of migration and development, social inequality and migration, and environmental degradation and human mobility.

Literaturangaben:

Stephen Castles & Mark Miller, 2009: The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World. Fourth Edition. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peter Kivisto & Thomas Faist, 2009: Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Anforderungen an die Vergabe von Leistungspunkten:

• Regular and active participation in the sessions
• Two written and oral summaries of previous sessions

OUTLINE

Session 1:
Introduction: Moving Across Borders

Section I: Movement

Session 2:
Accounting for Immigration Flows

Session 3:
Counting Contemporary Immigration Flows

Section II: Settlement

Session 4:
Assimilation: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Reframing

Session 5:
Transnationalism and Cross-Border Ties

Session 6:
Multiculturalism and Diversity: A New Mode of Incorporation?

Section III: Control

Session 7
The State and Immigration Control

Session 8
The EU and Migration

Session 9
Citizenship and the State in a Globalizing World

Section IV: Challenges Ahead

Session 10
Migration and Development

Session 11
Migration, Social Protection and Social Inequality

Session 12
Environmental Degradation, Conflict and Movement

Session 13
Conclusion: Migration and Mobility