Syllabus
1.-2. Why People Migrate? Introduction and Basic Causes of Migration.
Economic, Social and Political Dimensions of Migration. Short History of Migration.
Immigration and Emmigration Worldwide. Open Borders vs.
Restriction. Legal and Illegal Migration.
Low Skilled and High Skilled Migration. 3.-4. Basic Concepts of Migration (Neoclassical Theory of Migration, Segmented Labor (Market) Theory, World System Theory, „Push“ and „Pull“ Factors, New Economic of (Labor) Migration, Human Capital Theory, Relative Deprivation etc.): Economic Explanations vs.
Non-economic Explanations. Macro-level Explanations vs.
Micro-level Explanations (Ewa Moravska, Thomas Faist- Peter Kivisto). Differences and Similarities of Czech Migration Studies in Comparison with West-European and American Migration Studies. 5.
Migration and State (Vertical and Horizontal Dimension. Policy Towards Immigrants and Emmigrants.
Exogenous Changes for Migration vs. Endogenous Changes for Migration.
Reactions For and Against Migration. Consequences of Imperialism and Colonization). 6.
Concepts of Assimilation (American Perspective) / Integration (European Perspective) / Transnationalism (Cross-border Ties). Migration in the Age of Globalization. 7.-8.
Methodological Nationalism (Andreas Wimmer - Nina Glick-Schiller, Daniel Chernilo). Influx of Transnationalism and Integration/Assimilation (Ewa Morawska).
Segmented Assimilation (Alejandro Portes - Min Zhou). 9. Following the Migrants: Social Network Theory.
Strong and Weak Ties (Mark Granovetter, Douglas Massey et al.). Homophily.
Social Capital (Pierre Bourdieu, Alejandro Portes). Path Dependency and Path Creation.
Chain Migration and Culture of Migration. Sending State Heterophily.
Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Enterpreneurs and Migration (Richard Alba - Victor Nee; Alejandro Portes - De Wind) 10. Assimilation or Transnationalism of the Second Generation of Immigrants? (Alejandro Portes, Waldinger - Feliciano) 11.
Diasporic Ties (Robin Cohen). Return Migration: Concepts of Second-generation Return Migration (Russell King, Anastasia Christou, Tracey Reynolds) and Ethnic Return Migration (Takeyuki Tsuda, Christian Joppke).
Liberal Immigration Policy and Deethnicization of Migration. 12. Final Lecture - How can be these concepts used in Czech migration studies? Consideration about their validity in Czech social sciences.
Annotation
Course is aimed at approaches of migration used in European or American sociological and anthropological context and, simultaneously, understudied in the Czech Republic. Course will start with introducing of basic presumptions of migration and continue with specific concepts.
Lectures are taken in English.