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Politics of Immigration (2235.YR.015296.1)

General information

Type:

OPT

Curs:

3

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 3 Irina Ciornei Sociedad, Política y Sostenibilidad ENG

Previous Knowledge

Basic knowledge of politics, sociology or global studies.

Workload distribution

Students are expected to study during the whole course.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

Important subject for global studies and international relations that help students understand one of the most politicised issues of our times.

Assessment criteria

The course is based on continuous evaluation. For this reason, there is no final exam, but four types of assessments that students have to hand in during the semester:
1. Class participation
2. Class presentation in groups. Students can choose a topic that they consider relevant from the list provided by the professor.
3. Two policy briefs during the semester
4. Final policy paper

Breakdown of grades:
Class participation and attendance: 20%
Presentation: 20%
Group policy briefs: 30%
Final policy paper: 30%

Bibliography

Session 1. Immigration control and the state
Carens, Joseph 1987. Aliens and citizens. The case for open borders. The review of politics 49(2)
Anderson, B. (2013). Us and them? The dangerous politics of immigration control. OUP Oxford. Introduction and Chapter 1
Hollifield James 2004. The emerging migration state. International Migration Review 38(3)

Session 2. Do immigration policies fail?
Czaika, Mathias, and Hein De Haas (2013). The effectiveness of immigration policies. Population and Development Review 39, no. 3: 487-508.
Joppke Christian 1998. Why liberal states accept unwanted immigration. World politics 50(2)
Hollifield et al 2013. The dilemmas of immigration control. in James Hollifield et al. Controlling immigration. A global perspective. Stanford University Press, pages 57-84
Castles, Stephen (2004). Why migration policies fail. Ethnic and racial studies 27(2): 205-227.
Oishi, N. (2012). The limits of immigration policies: The challenges of highly skilled migration in Japan. American Behavioral Scientist, 56(8), 1080-1100.

Session 3. Policy lab 1
Background reading: Rinux Pennix 2005. Bridges between research and policy in "The Links between Academic Research and Public Policies in the Field of Migration and Ethnic Relations: Selected National Case-Studies?

Session 4. Different models of integration: from assimilation to post-multiculturalism
Vertovec, S. (2010), "Towards post-multiculturalism? Changing communities, conditions and contexts of diversity.? International Social Science Journal, 61: 83- 95.
Bloemraad, I., Korteweg, A., & Yurdakul, G. (2008). "Citizenship and immigration: Multiculturalism, assimilation, and challenges to the nation-state.? Sociology, 34(1), 153.
Helbling, Marc, Stephan Simon, and Samuel D. Schmid 2020. Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries. Journal of ethnic and migration studies 46, no. 13: 2603-2624.
Goodman, Sara Wallace 2013. Integration requirements for integration's sake? Identifying, categorising and comparing civic integration policies. In Migration and Citizenship Attribution, pp. 49-68. Routledge

Session 5. The local reality of integration: cities, towns and neighbourhoods
de Graauw, Els and Floris Vermeulen (2016). ?Cities and the Politics of Immigrant Integration: A Comparison of Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, and San Francisco'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Alexander, M. (2003). "Local policies toward migrants as an expression of Host- Stranger relations: a proposed typology.? Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 29(3), 411-430.
Borkert, M., & Caponio, T. (2010). "Introduction: The Local Dimension of Migration Policy Making.? In: M. Borkert and T. Caponio (eds.). The local dimension of migration policymaking. Amsterdam: IMISCOE Series
Zapata-Barrero, R. (2015). Intercultural policy and multi-level governance in Barcelona: mainstreaming comprehensive approach. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 0020852315592962

Session 6. Labour migration and integration I
Guild, E. (2016). Equivocal claims? Ambivalent controls? Labour migration regimes in the European Union. In Constructing and imagining labour migration (pp. 225-246). Routledge.
Castels Stephen 2006. Guest workers in Europe. A resurrection? IMR 4(4)
Ruhs, M., & Martin, P. (2017). Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-Offs and Guest Worker Programs 1. In Migrants and Rights (pp. 321-338). Routledge.
King, D., & Rueda, D. (2008). Cheap labor: the new politics of "bread and roses? in industrial democracies. Perspectives on Politics, 6(2), 279-297.

Session 7. Labour migration and integration II
Delgado Wise, Raúl, and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias 2008. Capitalist restructuring, development and labour migration: The Mexico-US case. Third World Quarterly 29, no. 7: 1359-1374.
Khadria, Binod 2006. India: Skilled migration to developed countries, labour migration to the Gulf. Migración y desarrollo 7: 4-37.
Frantz, Elizabeth. 2013. Jordan's Unfree Workforce: State-Sponsored Bonded Labour in the Arab Region. Journal of Development Studies 49 (8): 1072-1087.
https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/bonded-labour/
Kaur, Amarjit 2010. Labour migration in Southeast Asia: migration policies, labour exploitation and regulation. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 15, no. 1: 6-19.
Crush, Jonathan, and Vincent Williams 2010. Labour migration trends and policies in Southern Africa.
Nshimbi, Chris Changwe, and Lorenzo Fioramonti 2010. A region without borders? Policy frameworks for regional labour migration towards South Africa. Nshimbi, CC & Fioramonti, L.(2013) MiWORC Report 1.

Session 8. Forced migration and integration policies
Mayer. 2017. Cities as sites of refuge and resistance.
Schuster, Liza. 2000. "A Comparative Analysis of the Asylum Policy of Seven European Governments.? Journal of Refugee Studies 13(1): 118-132.
Thielemann, Eiko R 2012. How effective are National and EU policies in the area of forced migration? Refugee survey quarterly 31, no. 4: 21-37.


Session 9. Policy lab

Session 10. Political integration
Martiniello, M. (2005). "Political Participation, Mobilisation, and Representation of Immigrants and Their Offspring in Europe.? Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers [35].
Hochschild, J. L., J. Chattopadhyay, C. Gay, M. Jones-Correa (eds). (2013). Outsiders no More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Chapter 1).
Cappiali, T. M., and Triviño-Salazar, J. C. (2018). The role of multiple local actors in shaping immigrants' civic and political participation in cities: lesson from Italy and Spain. Gritim Working Paper Series 36. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Available at: https://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/35134?locale-attribute=en
Zepeda-Millán, C. (2016). Weapons of the (not so) weak: Immigrant mass mobilization in the US South. Critical Sociology, 42(2), 269-287.
Però, D. (2007). "Migrants and the politics of governance. The case of Barcelona.? Social Anthropology, 15(3), 271-286.

Session 11. Socio-economic integration

Crul, M. Philipp, S., Herzog-Punzenberger, B., Wilmes, M., Slootman M. and Aparicio Gómez, R. (2010) "School careers of second-generation youth in Europe. Which education systems provide the best chances for success?? in The European Second Generation Compared. Does the Integration Context Matter?, IMISCOE: Amsterdam University Press.
Phillips, D. (2010). "Minority Ethnic Segregation, Integration and Citizenship: A European Perspective.? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (2).
Safi, M. (2010). Immigrants' Life Satisfaction in Europe: Between Assimilation and Discrimination. European Sociological Review (2010) 26 (2): 159-176.
Vermeulen, F., & Stotijn, R. (2010). "Chapter 4: Local policies concerning unemployment among immigrant youth in Amsterdam and in Berlin: towards strategic replacement and pragmatic accommodation.? In: K. Borkert and T. Caponio (eds.). The local dimension of migration policymaking, Imiscoe Series.

Session 12. Cultural integration
Zapata-Barrero, Ricard (2014). "The limits to shaping diversity as public culture: Permanent festivities in Barcelona.? Cities 37: 66-72.
Meer, N., & Modood, T. (2015). "Religious pluralism in the United States and Britain: Its implications for Muslims and nationhood.? Social Compass, 0037768615601968.
Astor, A. (2012) "Memory, community, and opposition to mosques: the case of Badalona" Theory and society 41 (4): 325-349.
Bonjour, S. and Lettinga, D. (2012). Political debates on Islamic headscarves and civic integration abroad in France and in the Netherlands: What can models explain? Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 10 (3).

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 3 Irina Ciornei Sociedad, Política y Sostenibilidad

Timetable Year 3

From 2023/9/13 to 2023/9/18:
Monday and Wednesday from 14:45 to 17:15.

From 2023/10/2 to 2023/11/27:
Each Monday from 14:45 to 17:15. (Except: 2023/11/6)