29874 - Sociology of Migration (2nd cycle) (A)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have a general framework about international migrations and the approaches to interpret them. They will also have the basic sociological tools to study such a phenomenon, with attention not only to economic or demographic approaches, but also to the most recent ones.

Course contents

The course is pursued to provide the basic sociological tools to understand migrations: the most important approaches will be introduced, and also the most recent trends and the social impact of such a phenomenon in the Mediterranean context.

In the first part of the course, the international debate on migrations will be introduced through theoretical contributions from different disciplines.

The second part will be dedicated to territorial sociology, proposing some of its categories which are used to understand migrations. A particular attention will be given to:

1.      theory and concepts proposed in Chicago in the 1920s;

2.      the contibution of M. Halbwachs to study the migrations in Chicago;

3.      migrations as a "total social fact", from the Algerian sociologist A. Sayad;

4.      ethnic and coexistence relations in the urban context;

5.      the category "of migrant territories", and the "commuting" of territorial belongings as a model to foresee settlement trends.

Readings/Bibliography

M. Ambrosini, Sociologia delle migrazioni,  Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

M. Halbwachs, Chicago. Morfologia sociale e migrazioni, Armando, Roma, 2008

Students are also required to choose one of the following books:

Alietti A., Società urbane e convivenza interetnica, Angeli, Milano, 2009

Ambrosini M., Un'altra globalizzazione, Il Mulino, 2008

Brighenti A., Territori migranti, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2009

Cannarella M., Lagomarsino F., Queirolo Palmas L. (a cura di), Hermanitos. Vita e politica della strada tra i giovani latinos in Italia, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2007

Castel R., La discriminazione negativa, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2008

Cingolani P., Romeni d'Italia, Il Mulino, 2009

Colombo A., Etnografia di un'economia clandestina. Immigrati algerini a Milano, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998

Colombo E., Semi G. (a cura di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano. Le pratiche della differenza, Angeli, Milano, 2007

Decimo F., Quando emigrano le donne, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

Ehrenreich B., Russel Hochschild A., Donne globali. Tate, colf e badanti, Feltrinelli, 2004.

Gambino F., Migranti nella tempesta, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2003

Ong A., Da rifugiati a cittadini, Cortina, Milano, 2005

Queirolo Palmas L. (a cura di), Dentro le gang. Giovani, migranti e nuovi spazi pubblici, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2009

Riccio B. (a cura di), Migrazioni trasnazionali dall'Africa, UTET, Torino, 2008

Sacchetto D, Il Nordest e il suo oriente. Migranti, capitali e azioni umanitarie, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2004

Sassen S., Migranti, coloni, rifugiati, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1999

Sayad A., L'immigrazione o i paradossi dell'alterità, Onbre corte, 2008

Sayad A., La doppia assenza, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.

Thomas W., Gli immigrati e l'America, Donzelli, Roma, 1997

Vianello F.A., Migrando sole, Angeli, Milano, 2009

Zanfrini L., Sociologia della convivenza interetnica, Laterza, Roma, 2008

Other books can be agreed with the professor.

Further material and bibliography will be provided during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral exam about recommended reading.

Teaching tools

Overhead projector.

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Bergamaschi