Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(UNI362) -  I. MANOS- E. SIDERI

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Part I. Introducing Anthropology of migration (weeks 1-7)

 

This course offers an introduction to the anthropological study of migration, mobility, displacement, and diaspora, drawing on social anthropology, migration and refugee studies, and related interdisciplinary perspectives.The course explores how anthropology has conceptualized human movement, from earlier concerns with hospitality, danger, purity, and pollution to contemporary approaches to transnational mobility, borders, global inequalities, and power. Students will develop an understanding of key concepts in the anthropology of migration and learn to apply them critically to real-life cases and ethnographic examples. They will engage with scholarly debates on forced migration, displacement, refugeehood, transnationalism, citizenship, race, gender, care, belonging, and solidarity.The course introduces economic, historical, postcolonial, and transnational approaches to migration, as well as perspectives that challenge nation-centred understandings of human mobility. Particular attention is given to migrants’ everyday lives, relationships, identities, and practices across borders, and to the ways migration is shaped by gendered, racialized, economic, and political inequalities. Ethnographic case studies are central to the course as well as  artistic and cultural practices and representations—including literature, visual art, film, and diasporic cinema—as ways of expressing migrant experiences, negotiating identities and belonging, and critically engaging with dominant narratives

 

Part II. Researching Migration: Ethics, Relations and Knowledge Production (weeks 8-13)

 

This part of the course approaches research ethics as an integral dimension of the production of knowledge about migration, displacement, and mobile populations.

Research ethics is treated as part of the research process itself. It concerns not only formal procedures and methodological choices, but also the relations, responsibilities, and institutional conditions through which research is carried out. Ethical issues are examined as they emerge within specific research contexts, encounters and relationships, as well as within institutional and professional settings.

Particular attention is given to power relations, access and authority, positionality and multiple roles, and the responsibilities involved in research with differently situated actors and institutions. The institutional conditions within which research is conducted, negotiated, and reviewed are also considered. Through discussion, case studies, and critical reflection, students are encouraged to examine how methodological and ethical choices shape research relationships and the knowledge that research makes possible, and to develop reflexive and context-sensitive forms of ethical judgement in research design and practice.

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Πέμπτη 13 Οκτωβρίου 2022