Migration I is a 5 ECTS course proposed in the Undergraduate Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UNED within the field “Anthropological Training and Professional Practices” (Formación para la práctica profesional de la antropología). Since each ECTS means 25 hours, students should work 125 hours during the 13 weeks of the First Semester, working around 11.5 hours per week reading, understanding, and doing the proposed exercises, activities, and evaluations.
Schedule and Activities
Seeking students to know and understand theoretical problems developed by anthropologists in the field of migration while learning how to apply theory and ethnographic techniques to define and solve social problems, this study guide proposes the following activities:
Reading and studying required and suggested texts.
Interaction with teaching team and tutors by phone during the attendance hours, using the email or through the online course (aLF platform) activities.
Doing assignments.
Writing an essay on a book selected from a list that will be specified in the online platform (continuous evaluation).
First and Second week: 1. Anthropology and Migration
Burawoy, Michael (2000) “Introduction. Reaching for the Global.” In Michael Burawoy et al. Global Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press (pp. 1-40).
Kearny, Michael (1986) “From the Invisible Hand to Visible Feet: Anthropological Studies of Migration and Development” Annual Review of Anthropology 15: 331-361.
Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch y Cristina Szanton Blanc (1995) “From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration” Anthropological Quarterly, 68 (1):48-63
Third and Fourth week: 2. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches and Macro/Micro Structures
Burawoy, Michael (1998) “The Extended Case Method.” Sociology Theory, 16(1): 4-33.
Marcus, George E. (1995) "Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography". Annual Review of Anthropology 24, pp. 95-117.
Mahler, S. (1995) “Salvadorans Flee the Civil War.”Salvadorans in Suburbia. Symbiosis and Conflict. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Menjívar (2000) “The Long Journey through Mexico.” Fragmented Ties. Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Berckeley: University of California Press, (Chapter: 3).
Fifth and Sixth week: 3. Globalization, Modes of Incorporation, and Transnationalism
Cadavar (1998) “The Beginnings of the Latino Community; “The Festival Parade: Framing Cultural Identities.”Creating a Latino Identity in the Nation Capital. The Latino Festival. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (Chapters: 2, 6).
Mahler, Sarah (1995) “Salvadorans in the U.S.¿Status in Limbo.” Salvadorans in Suburbia. Symbiosis and Conflict. Boston: Allyn and Bacon (Chapter: 1).
Sánchez Molina, Raúl (2008) “Modes of Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Transnationalism: Salvadorans’ Adaptation to Washington Metropolitan Area.” Human Organization, 67(3): 269-280.
Seventh and Eighth week: 4. Migration, Gender, and Family
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette & Avila, Ernestine (1997) "I'm Here, but I'm There: The Meanings of Latino Transnational Motherhood" Gender & Society, 11(5): 548-571.
Salazar Parreñas, Rhacel (2010) “Transnational Mothering: A Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family.” North Carolina Law Review, 88: 1825-1856 (on line).
Schmalzbauer, Leah (2004). “Searching for Wages and Mothering from Afar: The Case of Honduran Transnational Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 66: 1317-1331.
Ninth and Tenth week: 5. Migration, Social Exclusion, and Transnationalism in Spain
Martínez Veiga, Ubaldo (2001). "Inmigrant Labor: Policies, Civil Rights, Violence and the Labor Market: El Ejido (Almería, Spain)." Endoxa, 15 (129-135).
Østergaard-Nielsen, Eva (2011) “Co-development and Citizenship: The Nexus between Policies on Local Migrant Incorporation and Migrant Transnational Practices in Spain.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(1): 20-39
Escandell, Xavier y María Teresa Tapias (2010) “Transnational Lives, Travelling Emotions and Idioms of Distress Among Bolivian Migrants in Spain.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(6): 407-423.
The other weeks: Research Project Proposed in Migration (RPPM)
