Sylabus
* Class Schedule: Class 1: No readings Class 2: Migration Studies TodayBrettell, Caroline and Hollifield, James (Eds.). 2015. “Introduction”. In Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-36. (36 pages) Favel, Adrian. 2015. “Chapter 9: Migration Theory Rebooted”. In Brettell, Caroline and Hollifield, James (Eds.). 2015. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. New York: Routledge, pp. 318-328. (10 pages). Class 3: Environmental Forced Migrants Diniega, Rachael and Grijalva, Daniela Paredes. 2021. “Technically not a ‘climate refugee’: legal frameworks, advocacy and selfidentification”. Routed: Migration and (im)mobiity Magazine, NO. 17, pp.1-3. (3 pages). Zetter, Roger and James Morrissey. 2014. “The Environment-Mobility Nexus: Reconceptualizing the Links between Environmental Stress, (Im)mobility, and Power”. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 272-280. (8 pages) Class 4: Forced Migration in Anthropology Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando. 2014. Introduction: Refugee and forced Migration Studies in Transition. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 01-22. (22 pages) Chatty, Dawn. 2014. Anthropology and Forced Migration. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-85. (12 pages) Class 5: Forced Migration and Humanitarianism I Ilana Feldman & Miriam Ticktin. 2010. “Government and Humanity”. In Ticktin, Miriam e Feldman, Ilana. 2010, In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-26. Fassin, Didier. 2007. "Humanitarianism as a politics of life". Public Culture, 19(3), p. 499-520. (21 pages). Class 6: Forced Migration and Humanitarianism II Carpi, E. (2020) “The Borderwork of Humanitarianism during Displacement from War-Torn Syria. Livelihoods as Identity Politics in Northern Lebanon and Southeast Turkey”, in Babar, Z., Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East, 33-53. London: Hurst and Oxford University Press, pp.33-53. (20 pages)Class 7: and Class 9: Forced Migration in AfricaAgier, Michel. 2008. “Introduction”; “The Desert, The Camp, The City”; and “Conclusion: What Refuges Need is Fame”. In On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1-6; 39-72; 102-104 (42 pages). Fresia, Marion. 2014. “Forced Migration in West Africa”. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 416-424. (9 pages). Kibreab, Gaim. 2014. “Forced Migration in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa”. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 435-444 (9 pages). Class 8:- Forced Migration in Latin America Andrade, José H. Fischel de. 2014. “Forced Migration in South America”. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.496-504. (9 pages) Bradley, Megan. 2014. “Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean”. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 506-514. (8 pages). Joseph, Handerson and Neiburg, Federico. 2021. “‘I’m going to die in the street’: Haitian lives in the pandemic”. City & Society, Volume 33(2). (8 pages) Navia, Angela Facundo. 2022. “The category of Nationality in an Investigation on Colombian Refugees in Brazil”. In Schiocchet, Leonardo and Nölle-Karimi, Christine (Eds.). 2022. Forced Migration Studies: Current Interventions. ROR-n Plattform Series 1(3). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences; pp. 153-164. (12 pages). Class 9: and Class 12: Forced Migration in the Middle EastBarbar, Zahra. 2010. “Human Mobility in the Middle East”. In Barbar, Zahra. 2020 (Ed.), Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East. London: Hurst & Company, pp. 1-18. (18 pages) Özge Biner and Zerrin Özlem Biner. 2021. Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Waiting in a Turkish Border Town. Social Anthropology, 29, 3 831-846. (16 pages). Class 10: and Class 14: Refugees and Religion van der Veer, Peter. “Introduction: Refugees and Religion”. In Meyer, Birgit and van der Veer, Peter (eds.). 2021. Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. Bloomsbury, pp. 1-14. (14 pages) Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2022. “Introduction” and “Conclusion”. In Schiocchet, Leonardo, Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Bielefeld: transcript Publishing, pp. 07-35; 231-238. (36 pages) Class 11: Forced Migration, Ukraine, Pets and Moral Dilemma Sandvik, Kristin Bertoga. 2022. The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Unpacking the Politics of Pet Exceptionalism. International Migration, 00: 1-13. (13 pages)
Class 12: Reserved to either catch up with the literature if necessary, or to review the course if students need it.
--- Suggested Readings: Agier, Michel. 2008. On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today. Cambridge: Polity Press. Barbar, Zahra. 2020. Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East. London: Hurst & Company. Brettell, Caroline and Hollifield, James. 2015. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. New York: Routledge. Carpi, E. (2020) “The Borderwork of Humanitarianism during Displacement from War-Torn Syria. Livelihoods as Identity Politics in Northern Lebanon and Southeast Turkey”, in Babar, Z., Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East, 33-53. London: Hurst and Oxford University Press. Chatty, Dawn. 2014. Anthropology and Forced Migration. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-85. Colson, Elizabeth. 2003. Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response. Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 2003, pp 1-18. Diniega, Rachael and Grijalva, Daniela Paredes. 2021. “Technically not a ‘climate refugee’: legal frameworks, advocacy and selfidentification”. Routed: Migration and (im)mobiity Magazine, NO. 17, pp.1-3. (3 pages). Fassin, Didier. 2007. "Humanitarianism as a politics of life". Public Culture, 19(3), p. 499-520. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando. 2014. Introduction: Refugee and forced Migration Studies in Transition. In Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 01-22. Joseph, Handerson and Neiburg, Federico. 2021. “‘I’m going to die in the street’: Haitian lives in the pandemic”. City & Society, Volume 33(2). Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among the Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Meyer, Birgit and van der Veer, Peter (eds.). 2021. Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. Bloomsbury. Navia, Angela Facundo. 2022. “The category of Nationality in an Investigation on Colombian Refugees in Brazil”. In Schiocchet, Leonardo and Nölle-Karimi, Christine (Eds.). 2022. Forced Migration Studies: Current Interventions. ROR-n Plattform Series 1(3). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1553/RoR-n_Plattform_Vol_01(3). ISSN: 2707-8760 (online); 2707-8752 (print). Özge Biner and Zerrin Özlem Biner. 2021. Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Waiting in a Turkish Border Town. Social Anthropology, 29, 3 831-846. Partridge, William L. and Halmo, David B. 2021. Resettling Displaced Communities: Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement. New York: Lexington Books. Sandvik, Kristin Bertoga. 2022. The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Unpacking the Politics of Pet Exceptionalism. International Migration, 00: 1-13. Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2022. Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon. Bielefeld: transcript Publishing. Ticktin, Miriam e Feldman, Ilana. 2010. In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care. Durham: Duke University Press.
Anotace
Moodle Link: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=17490
This course goes beyond questioning classic definitions of refugee, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and immigrants by discussing the extent to which forced migration can be considered a field of study distinct from the anthropology of migration. Furthermore, it analyses the broad spectrum of forces shaping the contemporary flow of refugees around the world. In doing so, it puts forced migration in Europe in geographical and historical perspective as a way of illustrating how the anthropology of forced migration and (im)mobility can be an effective tool to explain forced migration processes world-wide.
To understand situations of forced migration we must consider the processes that led to displacement and expropriation, the experiences of forced migrants, and how their arrival impact host societies. Public debate in Europe has been significantly marked by Eurocentrism, but several essential transversal themes emerge from questioning other contexts.
For this reason, this course will be centered in the Global South, rather than in Europe and the USA. The war in Ukraine brought yet another dimension to the refugee debate in Europe, for once again most forced migrants in Europe are
Europeans. Where would most refugees and refugee camps be in the world? How to understand cases of prolonged refuge, such as the Palestinian one, if the very essence of the refugee concept is its eminently transient character? What is the role of humanitarianism and humanitarian actors vis-à-vis host states and the principle of nation state sovereignty?
How has the war in Ukraine been affecting European and non-European narratives and engagements with forced migration world-wide, and particularly vis-à-vis the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe, proclaimed in 2015, when asylum seekers are mostly Muslims coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq?
Objective
To present and discuss the field of forced migration from an anthropological perspective and discuss contemporary global processes of forced migration. The course addresses topics such as humanitarianism, refuge/exile, displacement, dispossession and immobility by considering social, historical and political events. It focuses on the literature on the anthropology of forced migration with emphasis on contemporary publications.
