Università Roma Tre

Subjects of migration vary in different geographies and time scales. Migration is sometimes explored as the movement of people (together with knowledge, goods, capital and networks) across borders. The course will provide an analysis of this dramatic phenomenon in 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the major migration waves that have involved Europe and USA.
Demographic, economic, social, political and religious causes of migration will be addressed through the analysis of specific case studies, which will contribute to provide the students with a map of the most significant movements of people and their aftermaths in the decades to follow. Students will be accompanied by the instructor and different guest speakers to gain the
knowledge to answer to questions, such as “what are the definitions of migration? What are the features and patterns of migration from and to Europe? What is the role of states in defining and managing migration? Does it complement, compete with, subvert and/or foreshadow ethnic, national, religious, class and gender identities? What are the most vulnerable migrant groups? How do practices of migration cohabit with the state? What are the references in migration studies to concepts such as multiculturalism, toleration, diversity, collective rights, alienation and difference?” .

This course in taught in English.

Readings:

The Holy Bible, Abulafia, David, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Castles & Miller 2009. The
age of migration. Fourth Edition. UK Chapter 3. Chapter 7. Pages 170-180
UN The International Migration Report, EU Annual Report on Migration and Asylum, Oxford Academics, Migration Studies
Irial Glynn, Emigration Across the Atlantic: Irish, Italians and Swedes compared, 1800–1950, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies – University of Washington
Regulation (Eu) No 604/2013 Of The European Parliament And Of The Council Of 26 June 2013 (Current Dublin Regulation), Un Convention And Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refugee
Are Knudsen, Arne Strand, and Erlend Paasche War and migration (2013)
Mahmud Abdur-Rahman et. al., Life in Syria, (2017)
Un Convention And Protocol Relating To The Status Of Refuge