International Migration - Einzelansicht

The field of international migration studies in sociology is distinctive its interdisciplinary and methodologically pluralist nature: stretching from the demography and economics of migration, through political science and geographic approaches, to the ethnography and oral history of migrants. While the phenomenon itself offers valuable opportunities for exploring beyond the bounded nation-state-society focus of much sociological research, the comparative study of immigration also provides fresh perspectives on conceptions of citizenship and the state. This course seeks to familiarize students with the major economic, political, and social issues in immigration research, with particular focus on European and North American cases.

Readings (provisional)

Douglas Massey, et al. 2005. Worlds in Motion, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson. 2005. Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind. Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Berghan Books.

Wayne Cornelius, et al. 2004. Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press

Andrew Geddes. 2003. The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe. London: Sage.

Ruud Koopmans, et al. 2005. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe. Saint Paul: University of Minnesota Press.

Anthony Messina. 2007. Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Steven Vertovec. 2009. Transnationalism. London: Routledge