Unit ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION PROCESSES
- Course
- Social policies and social work
- Study-unit Code
- A003098
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Aurora Massa
- Teachers
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- Aurora Massa
- Hours
- 63 ore - Aurora Massa
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline psico-pedagogiche, antropologiche e filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Reference texts
- - Capello, C., Cingolani, P., Vietti, F., 2023, Etnografia delle migrazioni, Carocci: Roma (Nuova edizione aggiornata).
- Sorgoni, B., 2022, Antropologia delle migrazioni. L'età dei rifugiati, Carocci: Roma.
Un testo a scelta tra:
- Costantini, O., 2022, Riprendersi la vita. Etnografia dell’Hotel Quattrostelle occupato tra bisogno e socialità, Ombrecorte: Verona.
- Giudici, D., 2021, Al confine tra paura e desiderio. Politiche della memoria e soggettività di richiedenti asilo in Italia, Milano: Franco Angeli.
- Giacalone, F., 2021, Tra hijab e pratiche sociali. Generazioni di donne musulmane in Italia, Milano: Franco Angeli.
- Massa, A., 2021, Intrecci di frontiera. Percorsi, speranze e incertezze nelle migrazioni tra Eritrea ed Etiopia, CISU: Roma.
- Massa, A., Scarabello, S., 2024, Maternità e migrazioni: temporalità, rappresentazioni, equilibri, Antropologia, 1, 11. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with an anthropological perspective on on some of the dynamics of contemporary worlds, with particular attention to migratory processes. Students will develop an analytical approach to critically discuss the rhetorics of humanitarianism, the concepts of ethnicity and identities, forms of violence and exclusion, and the mechanisms of production of social, labor, racial, and gender inequalities.
The course will allow students to develop a culturally and historically grounded critical analysis of migration as a crossroads of historical-political processes in contemporary times. They will be able to integrate the concepts and paradigms discussed in class with their master program, enhancing their ability to work and act in multicultural contexts. Through an in-depth exploration of key terms, students will acquire greater communicative skills to understand and discuss key dynamics of contemporary multiculturalism. Students will be provided with the conceptual and methodological tools to understand social phenomena, such as racism, migration, and social and labor marginalization - Teaching methods
- he course will primarily be conducted through lectures supported by audiovisual materials. Experts in the field will be invited to present their research. Whenever possible, some lessons will be dedicated to group work.The active participation of students is highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- The examination will consist of a final oral discussions with questions designed to test your knowledge and understanding of the topics presented during the course and in the reading lists. In addition to the accuracy and completeness of the answers and the quality of the presentation, the ability to argue, make connections and use specialist terminology will be assessed.
- Extended program
- The course introduces the anthropological perspectives to the analysis of migration phenomena and multicultural societies, examining both theoretical and methodological contributions. The course is divided into three parts.
The first part reconstructs the key concepts of the anthropology of migration through the analysis of notions such as culture, ethnicity, nation, rights, and citizenship, as well as its historical developments, from the Manchester School to the transnational perspective. Through the presentation of specific ethnographic cases from various geographical contexts, the main research themes of the discipline will be explored, such as the cultures of migration, diaspora, the world of work, gender and generational dynamics, religious and identity dimensions, racism, and processes of discrimination and exclusion. Significant attention will be given to Italian and European reception policies, border regimes between the Global South and North, and forced migration. Central methodological issues in migration studies, such as travel, multi-sited research, and the role of images and new technologies, will also be presented.
The second part includes a series of seminars where anthropologists will present their research on topics such as migration policies, housing issues, conditions of transit and waiting, migrant parenthood, second generations, and mobility.
The third part is dedicated to group work by the attending students.