65303 - ANTROPOLOGIA DELLE MIGRAZIONI

Learning outcomes

Through the study of historical and contemporary forms of mobility, students will acquire an articulated and in-depth knowledge of the anthropological and ethnographic perspectives on migration. Students will become familiar with categories and theoretical perspectives developed within anthropology, building their expertise in interpreting ethnographic research and in the analysis of public, political and media discourses on migration. They will know also the theoretical and methodological challenges of cultural anthropology when applied to social policies towards migrants. They will be able to champion the anthropological perspective also in the evaluation of project for the socio-educational contexts.

Course contents

The course will address basic topics of the Anthropology of migration, with particular attention to its historical developments: from the studies of the Chicago school, to the Manchester schools, to migrations in the 1960s and 1970s, to globalization studies and the transnational perspective.

We will discuss the main themes that an anthropology of migration allows to explore: the structural causes, the cultures of migration, social networks, politics, work and employment, gender and generational dimensions, religious and identity dimensions, urban and rural dynamics, racism and discrimination. We will present the "mobility turn" in migration studies, through the discussion of specific ethnographic cases.

We will address central methodological issues in the study of migration: travels, participant observation, multi-sited ethnography, the use of images and new technologies, interdisciplinarity.

The last part of the course will be devoted to forced migrations: we will address current categorial, legal and administrative distinctions between economic/voluntary migrations and political/forced ones. We will discuss how forced migrations are managed in the Global South and in the Global North, and mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, control, containment, detention, and deportation of forced migrants.

Readings/Bibliography

Students will have to prepare the following three volumes:

1. Carlo Capello, Pietro Cingolani e Francesco Vietti, 2022, Etnografia delle migrazioni, Carocci, Roma (New edition).

2. Barbara Sorgoni, 2022, Antropologia delle migrazioni. L'età dei rifugiati, Carocci, Roma.

3. Bruno Riccio (ed.), 2019, Mobilità. Incursioni Etnografiche, Mondadori, Milano.

Teaching methods

Formal lectures with audio-visual support (when appropriate).

In each lecture, students will be engaged in order to verify the proper understanding of the issues discussed.

Assessment methods

The exam is written. Students will have to answer one question for each of the three volumes indicated above.

Proper language and the ability to make connections between the books' content will lead to a good/excellent final grade.

Acceptable language and the ability to resume the books' content will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.

The exam is failed if students:

- do not demonstrate to master the "learning outcomes" of the course;

- show insufficient linguistic proficiency and fragmentary knowledge of the books' content;

- do not answer all the exam questions.

Students with special needs are kindly invited to contact the lecturer in order to define together the proper assessment method.

Students can consult Exams dates and register at the following URLhttp://www.unibo.it/Portale/Guida/AlmaEsami.htm

Teaching tools

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Office hours

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