Race,Eth Migration in Europe

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Race, ethnicity and migration are complex terminologies. They often emerge interdependently. Dealing with these terms requires observing issues of privilege and oppression and looking in particular at their intersections with different aspects such as class, gender, religion, regional and national as well as international politics and policies of their praxis. Even though some overall concepts explain these terms, there are different understandings and significances of race and ethnicity as well as praxis of racism in different countries. The main focus of the seminar will be on European immigration countries, although we will also be comparatively in touch with the US- Context throughout the seminar. The seminar will question how race and ethnicity are socially constructed and maintained also by (a) migration policies, (b) interpersonal relationships and (c) social structures. In terms of doing this, we will first examine race, ethnicity and their intersectional components. Next, we will consider migration and its subjects, as well as its regulation and control in Europe. Then we will look into different European immigration countries, their policies. As an interdisciplinary seminar this seminar enables students to gain knowledge of main concepts and critical approaches to issues of race, ethnicity and migration in European contexts. You will develop skills of oral communication through Group works and discussions. This seminar encourages you to develop academic and practical as well as methodological knowledge while drawing connections and analyzing intersections between race, ethnicity and migration in different European countries and in your daily life in the US. Identifying the processes through which disparity is created, maintained and justified in racial/ethnic terms is an important part of our class objective.