Course Description

The aim of the course is to develop students’ knowledge of gender perspective on contemporary migration and refugee mobilites in Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. We will pay a special attention on the transformation of family and gender roles in migration, transnational care practices and interesectionality in migration studies. We will focus on feminist migration studies which are not limited just to a descriptive account of the different gendered experience of women and men with migration: they go further and analyse the structural inequalities that are behind the everyday experience of migrants: migration policies, production of (il)legality, practices of surveillance and control, securitization, biopolitics of migration, political economy of waiting, international migration regime and its contradictions; structures of gender inequalities and care and transnational social rights´ gap and development.

Methods of Instruction

Class discussions, film screenings. critical readings

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, students will have:

- the knowledge of how gender perspective has developed in migration studies

- the ability to use migration and mobility as an analytical tool

- the awareness of the intersectional perspective in migration

- the awareness of the methodological nationalism

- the knowledge of the specific character of migration dynamics in CEE and the EU

Assessment and Final Grade

Active participation in classes (to attend class regularly, to participate in the class discussions and to complete all reading responses on time): 10%
Paper presentation (oral and written) based on class readings: 20 %
Final exam: written in class test: 70%

Course Requirements

Written, in-class final exam testing the student’s grasp of concepts and case studies discussed in the class (based on class readings).
Informative papers (reading responses) based on required readings are due every class (app 1-2 pages (500 words in length). Reading responses suppose to include 3 questions related to the main topic. It will be uploaded to the storage box in MSTeams.
Oral paper presentation based on the class readings (15 minutes).

Grading Scale:

100 - 90 % : 1

89 - 80% : 2

79 - 75 % : 3

74% and less : -

Course programme:

Week I ( February 22,.2022)

Borders and Bordering I.

- borders and power, border spectacle, migration industry, political economy of waiting, bodies in move

Required Reading :

Andersson, R.2014.Time and the Migrant Other: European Border

Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality, Ametican Anthropologist 116

(4), p.795-809.

Week II (March 1, 2022)

-feminities and masculinities on borders, cathegorization of bodies, biopolitics, moral economies of mobilities

Required Reading:

Tyszler, Elsa. 2019. ‘The Performative Effects of the European War on Migrants. Masculinities and Femininities at the Moroccan-Spanish Border.’ Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 20 (1): 40–6.

Week III (March 8, 2022)

Borders and Bordering II.

- displacement, humanitarian arena, security nexus, geographies of asylum

Required Reading :

Chossière F.2021). Refugeeness, Sexuality, and Gender: Spatialized Lived Experiences of Intersectionality by Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Paris.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.634009/full

Week IV (March 15, 2022)

Gender in Migration and Integration Policies: migration apparatus, moral economies of migration policies

Required Reading :

Maskens M. 2018. Screenings for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms of Bureacratic Feminism,pp. 74-101, In: eds. Groes Ch. and N.T.Fernandez: Intimate mobilities: Sexual Exonomies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate. World, New York: Berhahn Books.

Week V. ( March 22., 2022) Docufilm screeing „Marriage“ and discussion with film director Katarina Hager.

Week VI (March 29, 2022)

Migration and Labor Market

- segmentation of labor markets, precarity and vulnerability, “triple invisibility” of migrants,migrant domestic workers

Required Reading :

Constable N. 2007. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers (2 nd edtition), Cornell University Press. (Superior Servants pp.44-63).

Updated part of syllabus:

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Week VII ( April 12, 2022)

Family in Migration: emancipation, mobilities of gender related traditions,

Required Reading:

George, S.M. 2005. „Home: Redoing Gender in Immigrant Households“ , In When Woman Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration, (str.77-118). Berkeley:University California Press.

Week VIII (April 19, 2022)

Film Screeing: Mama Illegal

Ezzeddine P., Havelková H. 2021.The Gender of Giult: diversity and ambivalence of transnational care trajectories within postsocialist migration experience, In Pine F., Haukanes H. Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardering borders (Gender, reproduction, regulation), pp.70-86, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Updated part of syllabus:

Week IX ( April 26, 2022)

Transnational care practices. transnational motherhood/fatherhood, „social orphants“, moral economies of remmitances, global care chains

Required Reading:

Sinnati G. 2014. Masculinities and Intersectionality in Migration: Transnational Wolof Migrants Negotiating Manhood and Gendered Family Roles, In D.H., Gasper D. Handmaker J. Bergh, S.I. (eds): Migration. Gender and Social Justice Perspectives on Human Insecurity (str.215-226), Springer:Heidelberg.

Week X ( May 3, 2022)

-class is cancelled

Week XI (May 10, 2022)

Ageing in Migration: kinship, social citizenship, relocare, global economy of care.

Kolářová K. 2015. “Grandpa lives in paradise now’: Biological Precarity and Global Economy of Debility”, In, Feminist Review, Special issue on Debility and Frailty: (75-87).

Week XII (May 17, 2022)

Gender in Migration: Engagement, Activism and Advocacy

-presentation and discussion with a representative of Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI)

http://www.migrace.com/en/mission/projects