45318 - The Frontiers of Citizenship

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will get both a general overview of the history of the modern concept of citizenship and an overview of some of the most important contemporary debates on the trasformations of citizenship in the framework of globalization processes. He or she will be acquainted with the findamental issues at stake in international debates in the field of political theory. In particular, he or she will be able to crtically assess continuities and discontinuities between the modern conception of citizenship and the new emergin assemblages of authority, territory, and rights and to analyze the tensions between citizenship and human rights, with  particular reference to  the problems and challanges posited by contemporary migratory movements.

Course contents

The course is divided into three parts. The first part aims at showing how the formation of the Western modern concept of citizenship has been historically and theoretically shaped by the establishment of precise borders of citizenship itself: through a detailed reading of classical texts, some of these borders and the inclusion/exclusion mechanisms related to them will be critically highlighted and discussed. The second part of the course will focus on the relation between migration, globalization and citizenship in contemporary world. A third part of the course will focus on the debates on migration within the field of political philosophy, with specific references to the issue of political subjectivity and to the theory of justice.
Students that take the course for 6 credits can limit themsleves to attend the classes of the first or of the last two parts.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographical references for the exam.

A) First part: S. Mezzadra (ed), Cittadinanza. Soggetti, ordine, diritto, Bologna, Clueb, 2004.

B) Second part: S. Mezzadra, Diritto di fuga. Cittadinanza, migrazioni, globalizzazione, Seconda edizione ampliata, Verona, Ombre corte, 2006. A second text must be selected out of the following reading list: M. Ambrosini, Un'altra globalizzazione. La sfida delle migrazioni transnazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008. E. Balibar, Noi cittadini d'Europa? Le frontiere, lo stato, il popolo (2001), Roma, Manifestolibri, 2004. R. Bauböck, Transnational Citizenship: Membership and Rights in International Migration, Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1994. S. Benhabib – J. Resnik (eds), Migrations and Mobilities. Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, New York – London, New York University Press, 2009. A.M. Brighenti, Territori migranti. Spazio e controllo della mobilità globale, Verona, ombre corte, 2009. R. Brubaker, Cittadinanza e nazionalità in Francia e in Germania (1993), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. C. Capello, Le prigioni invisibili, Milano, Angeli, 2009. S. Castles, A. Davidson, Citizenship and Migration. Globalization and the Politics of Belonging, London, Macmillan, 2000. P. Cingolani, Romeni d'Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009. E. Colombo – G. Semi (a c. di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano. Le pratiche della differenza, Milano, Angeli, 2007. P. Cuttitta, F. Vassallo Paleologo (a c. di), Migrazioni, frontiere, diritti, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006. P. Cuttitta, Segnali di confine. Il controllo dell'immigrazione nel mondo-frontiera, Milano, Mimesis, 2007. F. Gambino – D. Sacchetto (a c. di), Un arcipelago produttivo. Migranti e imprenditori tra Italia e Romania, Roma, Carocci, 2007. T. Hammar, Democracy and the Nation-State: Aliens, Denizens and Citizens in a World of International Migration, Aldershot, Avebury, 1990. E.F. Isin, Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 2002. E.F. Isin – P. Nyers – B.S. Turner (eds), Citizenship between Past and Future, London – New York, Routledge, 2008. R. Koopmans – P. Statham – M. Giugni – F. Passy, Contested Citizenship. Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 2005. W. Kymlicka, La cittadinanza multiculturale (1995), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999. W. Kymlicka, W. Norman (eds), Citizenship in Diverse Societies, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. C. B. Menghi (a c. di), L'immigrazione tra diritti e politica globale, Torino, Giappichelli, 2002. S. Mezzadra (a c. di), I confini della libertà. Per un'analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2004. P.K. Rajaram – C. Grundy-Warr (eds), Borderscapes. Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge, Minneapolis – London, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. B. Riccio (a cura di), Migrazioni transnazionali dall'Africa. Etnografie multilocali a confronto, Torino, Utet, 2008. E. Rigo, Europa di confine. Migrazioni, confini, trasformazioni della cittadinanza nell'Europa allargata, Roma, Meltemi, 2007. D. Sacchetto, Il Nordest e il suo Oriente. Migranti, capitali, azioni umanitarie, Verona, ombre corte, 2004. R. Salih, Gender in Transnationalism. Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women, London and New York, Routledge, 2003. S. Sassen, Sociologia della globalizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 2008. A. Sbraccia, Migranti tra mobilità e carcere. Storie di vita e processi di criminalizzazione, Milano Angeli, 2007. A. Sciurba, Campi di forza. Percorsi confinati di migranti in Europa, Verona, ombre corte, 2009. Y.N. Soysal, Limits of Citizenship. Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1994. A. Sayad, La doppia assenza: dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato (1999), Milano, Cortina, 2002. A. Ong, Da rifugiati a cittadini: pratiche di governo nella nuova America (2003), Milano, Cortina, 2005. Y. Moulier Boutang, Dalla schiavitù al lavoro salariato (1998), Roma, Manifestolibri, 2002. Transit Migration Forschungsgruppe (Hg.), Turbulente Ränder. Neue Perspektiven auf Migration an den Grenzen Europas, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2007.

C) Third part. A text must be selected out of the following reading list: S. Benhabib, I diritti degli altri. Stranieri, residenti, cittadini (2004), trad. it. Milano, Cortina, 2006. Ph. Cole, Philosophies of Exclusion. Liberal Political Theory and Immigration, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000. N. Fraser, Scales of Justice. Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World, Cambridge – Malden, Polity Press, 2008. J. Rancière, (1995), Il disaccordo, trad. it. Roma, Meltemi, 2007. W.F. Schwartz (Ed.), Justice in immigration, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the course.

Suggested program for students who are not going to attend classes:
S. Mezzadra (a c. di), Cittadinanza. Soggetti, ordine, diritto, Bologna, Clueb, 2004.
S. Mezzadra, Diritto di fuga. Cittadinanza, migrazioni, globalizzazione, Seconda edizione ampliata, Verona, Ombre corte, 2006.
E. Balibar, Noi cittadini d'Europa? Le frontiere, lo stato, il popolo (2001), Roma, Manifestolibri, 2004.
S. Benhabib, I diritti degli altri. Stranieri, residenti, cittadini (2004), trad. it. Milano, Cortina, 2006.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be devoted both to issues concerning the history of the modern concept of citizenship and to issues concerning contemporary debates on the relation between transformations of citizenship and migratory movements. In both cases, as well as in third part of the course, seminars will be organized, with direct involvement of students and participation of external guests.

Assessment methods

The exam will be oral and it will aim at checking the student's knowledges relating to each of the parts in which the course is articulated. As far as the second and the third part are concerned, it is also possible to present a working paper.

Teaching tools

The course presupposes a basic knowledge of the history of modern and contemporary political thoguth. Students who do not have such knowledge in their curriculum can use one of the following texts:

C. Galli (a c. di), Storia del pensiero politico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001
R. Gherardi (a cura di), La politica e gli Stati. Problemi e figure del pensiero occidentale, Roma, Carocci, 2004
A. Pandolfi (a cura di), Nel pensiero politico moderno, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2004

Office hours

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