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Instructors: Dr. Suzanna Wilhelmina Sietske Winters
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Migration
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 35
Registration group: Gesellschaft und Kultur II, 07.798.160
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This seminar will provide an introduction to the anthropological study of migration and familiarize students with a diversity of migration experiences, (non-)migrant practices, and recent developments in the Central American region. Central America has long been characterized by migrations that connect the countries of this region to each other, as well as to Mexico, the US and beyond. This unique migratory landscape has historically been shaped by socio-economic and political marginalization, instability and violence, and has become recently affected (anew) by so-called extra-continental migration trajectories including those of African migrants. In this seminar, we will work through a number of ethnographic case studies in order to reach theoretical common ground regarding the core migration issues of mobility and immobility. Selected themes include: 1) qualifiers of migration: South-South, displacement, and feminization; 2) transnational families, translocal livelihoods and remittances; 3) migration industries; border-crossings and transit; 4) ‘illegality’; and 5) the challenges of doing fieldwork with (illegalized / victimized) migrants. By the end of the seminar, students should be able to critically reflect on doing migration research, on the differentiated experiences of mobility and immobility, and on the particular ways in which the migratory landscape in Central America is connected to migrations elsewhere.
Recommended reading list:
Carlos Sandoval-García (2017) Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America. No More Walls. Palgrave Macmillan.
Wendy A. Vogt (2018) Lives in Transit. Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey. University of California Press.
Kristin E. Yarris (2017) Care Across Generations. Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families. Stanford University Press.
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