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Syllabus |
1. Introduction: movement, space, belonging and being. The tradition and the new: identity, migrations and mobility.
2. Migrations: main theoretical approaches; migration law and its evolution in history; the contemporary migration regime; migration crises in the contemporary world and the tension between human rights and the sovereign state
3. Mobilities: the making of a “new” social science paradigm; The broad variety of forms and relations: types of mobility; mobility and gender, mobile work and mobility justice.
4. The intercross with identities: lifestyles, life choices and changes.
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Main Bibliography |
Castles, S., De Haas, H., & Miller, M. J. (2013). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world. Palgrave Macmillan.
Cohen, S. A., Duncan, T., & Thulemark, M. (2015). Lifestyle mobilities: The crossroads of travel, leisure and migration. Mobilities, 10(1), 155-172.
Fine, S. & Ypi, L. (2016) Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership,
UrryJ. (2007). Mobilities. Polity Press
Recommended
Åkerlund, U. (2013). The best of both worlds: Aspirations, drivers and practices of Swedish lifestyle movers in Malta (Doctoral dissertation, Umeå universitet).
Castles, S. (2007). Twenty-first-century migration as a challenge to sociology. Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 33(3), 351-371.
Fortier, A. M., Ahmed, S., Castañeda, C., & Sheller, M. (2003). Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of home and migration. Berg.
Morley, D., & Robins, K. (2002). Spaces of identity: Global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries. Routledge
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