MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE: TRANSNATIONAL CHALLENGES THEN AND NOW A proposal for a graduate teaching program Alliance Program for academic year 2013-2014 SciencesPo Paris and Columbia University Principal faculty: RIVA KASTORYANO Senior Research Fellow, Political Sociology CERI-CNRS Sciences-Po 33 1 58 71 70 35
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ABSTRACT International migration patterns have shaped and reshaped individual and collective identities throughout history and across the world. In the present time of globalization, these dynamics have posed particular political and social challenges in both the United States and Europe and have commanded the attention of scholars working and teaching in diverse disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic. Our project will offer a graduate course on transnational migration and citizenship in the United States and Europe. It will be co-designed and co-taught by a Columbia historian and a Sciences-Po political sociologist and offered simultaneously to students in New York and Paris, using video conferencing and personal faculty exchange. CONTENT 1. Theoretical and historiographical readings and discussion on transnationalism as challenge and reframing of national space, politics, ideology, and methodology of social science and historical inquiry. 2. Transnational problematics of migration and citizenship, historical and contemporary a. Labor migrations (guest workers, undocumented workers, etc.) b. Boundaries of inclusion (naturalization policies, politics of laïcité and multiculturalism, dual citizenships, asylum and human rights, social welfare policies, trade union policies, etc.) c. Social difference based on race, religion, colonialism 3. Case studies of transnational migrants a. Europe -- North African, Turkish, South-East Asian and Sub-Saharan migrants b. U.S. -- Asian and Mexican migrants ORGANIZATION The course will take place on Wednesdays 10:00 am in New York and 4:00pm in Paris. It will be co-taught so that faculty and students interact in a classroom with videoconference equipment. 1. The course will be 12 weeks long (the length of the Science-Po term. The Columbia term, which is 14 weeks, will include two weeks of additional work separate from the joint class), starting the week of January 20th. The course will be taught in English. 2. Six classes, or 50 percent of the course will be taught via video-conference (e.g. at 10 am in NY and 4 pm in Paris), with students and faculty interacting together. Students will prepare assignments with each other across institutions (using email and Skype to interact outside of class time). 3. Each professor will spend two weeks visiting the other’s institution, where she will teach three classes together with the host professor. (25 percent of the
course). This will allow for a period of direct interaction among the professors and with each other’s students. a. During each professor’s visit, there will be opportunity to meet individually with students who wish to discuss their research interests and projects. 4. The remainder of the course (25 percent) will be taught in the traditional manner, with each professor teaching her own students, in interaction with the other institution’s class through video-conference and using the common syllabus. 5. Each student will work on a joint research project with a student from the other institution. Students will report on their projects to the entire class via video conference.
THE REQUIRED READINGS Introduction: Migration in History and Comparison Week 1. JAN. 22--Historical and comparative perspective on Migration Castles, S. and Miller, M. The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World, London, MacMillan 1994. Part I. Part I. Theories and Practices of immigrant incorporation and citizenship Week 2. JAN 29 -- « Assimilation » Conzen, K. et al, “The Invention of Ethnicity: A Perspective from the USA,” Journal of American Ethnic History (1992). Joppke, C., Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Oxford, 1999 Week 3. FEB. 5 --National Citizenship and its Limits Ong, A. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality. Univ. California Press, 1999. Chapter 3 Soysal, Y. Limits of Citizenship. Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe Chicago U ; Press, 1994 (chapter selection to come) Kastoryano, R.; Negotiating Identities. States and Immigrants in France and Germany, Princeton U. Press, 2002, chapter 7 Week 4. FEB. 12 -- Migration and European Citizenship Kastoryano, R., Transnational Participation and Citizenship in Europe, in Berezin, M. et al, Europe Without Borders: Remapping Territory, Citizenship and Identity in a Transnational Age, Johns Hopkins U. Press 2004 Linklaker, A. The Transformation of the Political Community, Chapitre 6:Citizenship and Sovereignty in Post- Westphalian European State, 1998, pp.113-138 Week 5. FEB. 19--Evolution of the Method Ngai, M. « Immigration and Ethnic History, » in American History Now, ed. FOner and McGirr ( 2011) Favell, A. “Integrating nations: the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe, Comparative Social Research, Yearbook vol: 22, nov 2003, pp.13-42 Week 6. FEB 26. No class – Sciences Po spring break Columbia – separate class
Part II. Transnationalism as a mode of inquiry of past and present Week 7. MARCH 5-- Old question, new approaches Thomas, W. and F. Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1927) (chapter selection) Basch, L. et al. Nation Unbound, Transnational Project Postcolonial and Deterritorialized Nation-States, 1994, Chapters 1-2 Baubock, R. “Towards a Political theory of Migrant Transnationalism,” International Migration Review, 2003, vol.37, pp.700-723 Week 8. MARCH 12--Case Studies – The US Hsu, M. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home, Stanford Univ. Press 2000. (chapter 2) Gutierrez, D. «Migration, emergent ethnicity and the third space : shifting politics of nationalism in greater Mexico » Journal of American History 1999. Week 9. MARCH 19. No class-Columbia spring break (Sciences Po-separate class) Week 10. March 26--Case Studies – Europe Faist, T., “Towards a Political Sociology of transnationalization. The State of the Art in International Migration,” in Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 2004 Kastoryano, R. Turkish transnational nationalism. How Turks abroad redefine Turkish nationalism, 2012 Part II. New Challenges for Public Policy Week 11. APRIL 2-- Undocumented migration in US Rouse, R. “Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism,” Diaspora vol 8 (1991). De Genova, N. “The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant Illegality,” Latino Studies 2 (2004), 160-185. Nicholls, W. The DREAMers : How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate. (Stanford 2013), ch. 2, 4. Week 12. APRIL 9--Islam in Europe Modood, T., et al (eds.), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, Routledge, 2006, Chap. 1, 4, 9 Fetzer, J., ed,, Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Week 13. APRIL 16--Refugees, asylum and human rights Ong, A. Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship and the New America. Univ. California Press 2003. Chapter 4. Benhabib, S. The Rights of Others (chapter on asylum) Bicocci, L. “Undocumented Children in Europe: Ignored Victims of Immigration Restriction.