24. February 2022

Introduction.

3. March 2022

Understanding the governance of mobility and diversity: overview of key theories and concepts

Reading: Casas-Cortes, M. et al. (2015). New Keywords: Migration and Borders. Cultural Studies, 29(1), 55–87 (only pp. 61-85)

10. March 2022

Recent controversies related to (the politics of) mobility and diversity

Key points: The refugee wave 2015-2017 – a crisis discourse; Brexit; Poland-Belarus border; attitudes towards immigrants; populism, the far right and anti-immigrant campaigns.

Reading: Crawley, H., & Skleparis, D. (2018). Refugees, migrants, neither, both: Categorical fetishism and the politics of bounding in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(1), 48–64.

17. March 2022

Asylum and immigration policies in the European Union

Key points: comparison of immigration regimes; EU asylum politics; asylum and humanitarianism; brain gain and the discourse on deservingness; shifts in restrictiveness; the production of illegality

Reading: Haas, H. de, Natter, K., & Vezzoli, S. (2018). Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies. International Migration Review.

24. March 2022

Building Fortress Europe: borders and bordering

Key points: border management; surveillance; externalisation of the EU border; pushbacks and deaths at sea; deportations and detentions; the securitisation of migration; exceptionalism and encampment.

Reading: De Genova, N. (2019). Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability. Gender a Výzkum / Gender and Research, 20(1), 92–104.

31. March 2022

Citizenship in a neoliberal context

Key points: recent trends in citizenship policy; citizenship deprivation; neoliberal discourse; civic citizenship vs. national belonging; citizenship tests

Reading: van Houdt, F., Suvarierol, S., & Schinkel, W. (2011). Neoliberal communitarian citizenship: Current trends towards ‘earned citizenship’ in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. International Sociology, 26(3), 408–432.

7. April 2022

“Integration nations” – debates on assimilation and social cohesion

Key points: integration research vs. integration policy; debates on “assimilability”; integration courses; the social imaginary of integrationism

Reading: Favell, A. (2014). Integration policy and integration research in Europe: A review and critique. In Immigration, integration and mobility: New agendas in migration studies. Essays: 1998—2014 (pp. 69–122). ECPR Press.

14. April 2022

No class (Děkanské volno)

21. April 2022

Religious and cultural clashes and the debate on multiculturalism

Key points: multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism versus assimilationism and nativism, superdiversity; the Muslim “other”; gendered constructions (case study: the headscarf debate)

Reading: Korteweg, A. C. (2017). The failures of ‘immigrant integration’: The gendered racialized production of non-belonging. Migration Studies, 5(3), 428–444.

28. April 2022

The nation-state and its “others” in a globalised world

Key points: tensions between the national order and global capitalism; the liberal paradox; migration and national belonging; the case for open borders

Reading: Kukathas, C. (2012). Why open borders? Ethical Perspectives, 19(4), 650-675.

5. May 2022

Racism, neocolonialism and the imperial roots of “Fortress Europe”

Key points: “Birth right lottery” – the passport as the new privilege; colonial legacies in diversity management, racial/class/gender/heteronormative hierarchies, within-Europe east-west hierarchies, the racial state.

Reading: Rodríguez, E. G. (2018). The Coloniality of Migration and the “Refugee Crisis”: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 34(1), 16–28.

12. May 2022

Critical and decolonial approaches to the management of mobility and diversity: key take-aways

Key points: coloniality/modernity school, critical race theory, migration as decolonisation, reflexive migration studies, methodological (de)nationalism, postsocialist critique

Reading: Carver, N. (2019). The Silent Backdrop: Colonial Anxiety at the Border. Journal of Historical Sociology, 32(2), 154–172.

19. May 2022

Recapitulations, feedback, key take-aways, class evaluation.