ANTH-E400/600 MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS
Spring 2012
Instructor: Prof. J. Bahloul
This course is devoted to the analysis and discussion of one of the major global processes observed in human behavior in modern times. The focus will be on international migration. Why do people migrate? Where do they go and why? How do they migrate and how do they integrate into the host societies? How do the mainstream societies welcome them? By which social, economic, cultural, and political processes? These are the questions students will have to explore and try to answer. The course takes both a theoretical and an ethnographic approach. We shall cover a large number of situations and geographical areas of migration, in Europe , the Middle East , the Americas Asia . Students will have an opportunity to deal with a variety of social and cultural forms of expression of the migrants’ condition, in family organization, religious practice, collective memory, the arts, associations. They will have a unique opportunity to conduct a fieldwork project in Bloomington, under the instructor’s direction and methodological support.
Requirements
Undergraduate: Class diary (40%); Fieldwork project (40%); Class participation (20%)
Graduate: Class diary (40%); In-class presentations (20%); fieldwork project (40%)
Readings
- Baldassar L. and Gabaccia D., 2011, Intimacy and Italian Migration, Fordham U.
Press.
- Bretell C., 2003, Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity
and Identity, AltaMira Press.
- Dufoix S., 2008, Diasporas, U. of California Press.
- Ebaugh H.R., Saltzman Chafetz J., (eds.), 2002, Religion across Borders:
Transnational Immigrant Networks, AltaMira Press.
- Ray K., 2004, The Migrant’s Table, Temple U. Press.
- Reed-Danahay D. and Brettell C., 2008, Citizenship, Political Engagement, and
Belonging, Rutgers U. Press.
- Van Hear N., 1998, New Diasporas, U. of Washington press.
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