Syllabus
1.-3. Basic Presumptions of Migration.
Basic Approaches of Migration Studies (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.) 4. Postmodernistic „Turn“ in Anthropology and Its Impact on Development of Transnational Ties.
Basic Introducion of Transnational Ties. Cross-border Political, Social, Econonomic Ties.
Remittances. Transnational Organizations (for all Vertovec 2009). 5.
Criticism of Assimilation/Integration Approach. Straight-Forward Assimilation (Gordon 1981 (1964)).
Marginalization of Transnational Ties. Methodological Nationalism (Chernilo 2008; Amelina - Faist - Glick-Schiller - Nergiz 2013). 6.
Early Concepts of Transnational Ties (Basch et al. 1994; Kearney 1991; Smith - Guarnizo 1998; Rouse 1991). Term Transmigrants.
Deleting of State and Borders. Construction of Transnational Field and its Constraints.
Other Early Concepts of Transnational Ties - e.g. Transnational Social Space (Pries 1999) 7.
Criticizing Early Concepts of Transnationalism (Waldinger - Fitzgerald 2004). Criticizing of term Transmigrants (Guarnizo-Portes-Haller 1999). 8.
Functions of State, Borders, Emigrants and Immigrants Back into Question (Using More Samples of Case Studies). 9. Influx of Transnationalism and Assimilation (Morawska 2003, 2005; Faist-Kivisto 2010; Snel et al. 2006).
Second Genereation (King - Christou 2008). Segmented Assimilation (Portes - Zhou 1993). 10.
Social Capital (Portes 1998). Etnic Enterpreunership (Alba - Nee 1997), Diaspora, State and Transnationalism (Tsuda 2009; Faist - Baubock 2010; Waterbury 2010) 11.
After Influx - New Concepts of Cross-Border ties? Intersocietal Convergence (Waldinger 2015) 12. Final Lecture - How can be these concepts used? Consideration about their validity in social sciences.
Annotation
Course is aimed at approaches of transnational 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 transnational migration and continue with specific concepts.
Sample of case studies will be used during all. Lectures are taken in English.