Topics/Sections of the course
- 2nd – A presentation of Elis Island in order to begin understanding reception/ On place-space, a methodological and more analytical discussion/ historical facts about international migration / text of Arendt “We refugees”
- 3rd – Colonialism, nation-state and forced mobility
- 4th – Refugeedom (Gatrell)/ Representing refugees throughout photos/ The emergence of human rights/ The legal and social construction of the refugee
- 5th – The European border regime/ Transit migration/ Case studies
- 6th – Gender and migration/ Intersectionality
- 7th –Asylum and migration basic definitions/ non-refoulement/ push backs at the borders/ The discussion on refugees and migrant’s rights and citizenship and naturalization/ Different examples
- 8th – Critically discuss the use of the term crisis/ the era before and during 2015/ Documentary “Feeling of a home”
- 9th – The post 2015 era/ Safe country of origin/ Safe third country/ European Agenda on Migration/ Hotspots
- 10th – Camps and “campization” and forms of non-collective housing, formal, informal, institutional, grassroots
- 11th – NGOisation of migration/ “Pop-up” governance
- 12th – On humanitarianism and humanitarian governance
- 13th – A reflective discussion on the basic aspects that this course covered – presentations
