OVERVIEW

The course aims at critically addressing the politics of government of displaced people’s (migrants, refugees, asylum seekers) mobility, by particularly focusing on the processes of transformation involving the political and territorial dimension of borders, their apparatuses and specific tools. In this perspective, a specific attention will be devoted to the blocks and restrictions affecting migration and asylum policies as an answer to the humanitarian crisis triggered by recent conflicts.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at providing students with a series of theoretical tools and practical_and descripive competences enabling them to understand and critically analyse the politics of government of contemporary migrations.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The capability to detect and interpret the political transformation involving the forms of international protection and migration policies will provide students with specific and critical competences as potential educators.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will be organized on traditional frontal lectures, with the recourse to visual and filmed and the possibility of the presence of social actors such as  social operators and migrants, refugees  and asylum seekers telling their experience.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

While synthetically outlining the main traits of contemporary international migrations, the course will focus on the different conditions of displacement characterizing the experience of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and the different politics of government addressing them at a national and European level. Particularly, by outlining the processes of transformation affecting political and territorial borders and their apparatuses and facilities, the attention will focus the specific crisis characterizing current European migration and asylum policies, further triggered by the conflicts and wars affecting Middle East and North Africa. The last part of the course will be therefore devoted to the analysis of the recent harshening in European border policies, by analyzing a series of both juridicp-political and material border’s tools and apparatuses whose aim is to further selecting and filtering migrants and refugees’  presence while increasing their precarious conditions of life.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aa.Vv, Cpt, internamenti e altri campi, Conflitti globali, Agenzia X, Milano 2006

S. Mezzadra, Diritto di fuga, Ombre corte, Verona 2006;

F. Rahola, Zone definitivamente temporanee. I luogi dell’umanità in eccesso, Ombre corte, Verona 2003.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DONATELLA PANATTO (President)

FEDERICO RAHOLA (President)

FILIPPO CIUCCI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

A collective or individual research work on the issues discussed during the course and established together with the teacher, or, as an alternative, a traditional oral test concerning two among the recommended books.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Both in case of individual or collective presentations of specific researches, and in case of an oral test, the exam will verify student’s appropriate knowledge and comprehension of the main social, political and cultural dynamics at stake in contemporary international migrations, attesting his/her ability to read with a critical gaze the transformation processes investing the strategies of government of migrants and asylum seekers enacted in recent years.

Exam schedule