Class meetings (depending on current covid-19 regulations): Wednesday, 3:50pm-5:20pm in room C 138 or MOODLE/MS TEAMS Detailed information concerning evaluation, requirements, readings etc. will be posted by February 15 2021. Preliminary outline: 1. Key concepts 2. Discourses on migration and multiculturalism 3. Theories 4. What is essentialism? 5. Politics of migration and multiculturalism 6. Models of integration, their past and present 7. Democracy, diversity, representation 8. Structural inequalities 9. Riots, subversion, discontents 10. Race 11. Collective identities and identification 12. Crises of secularism 13. Anthropological research of multiculturalism
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We will address European, and in particular Central European, sociocultural integration of migrants, multicultural theories, policies and realities. The emphasis of this course is on theoretical concepts and normative arguments and, on the other hand, on the ethnographic study of everyday multiculturalism.