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| Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| GLA5913 | Special Topics in International Relations | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | "International migration is an inherently political phenomenon, in that it entails not merely physical relocation but a change of jurisdiction from one state to another and eventually also a change of membership from one community to another." As Aristide Zolberg puts it, international migration is a political phenomenon, exposing sovereign states with one another and with individuals. Although the topic has taken little interest within the policymaking and academic scholarship in the past, since the 1970s it has been entering the agenda of many (and especially developed) states and societies. In our current age, the international migration is becoming every day more political and more politicized. The aim of this course is to offer students the opportunity to familiarize and engage with the debates, theories and research on the political aspect of different migratory movements and post-migratory processes. To be able to grasp different types of movements and their political repercussions, the course is divided under three main subsections of migrants, refugees and diasporas. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Evaluate the political dimensions of international migration; II. Gain knowledge about migration and asylum movements in history and in the current period; III. Make sense of the relationship between social processes that cause and are created by migration; IV. Comprehend legal and institutional processes of different types of migration; V. Evaluate the migration processes in Turkey in the context of its global position, together with its causes and consequences. |
| Trends and Theories in Migration, The Ethics of Migration Governance, The Emergence of Migration States, Politics of Incorporation, Citizenship and Globalization, Borders, Border Politics and Securitization of Migration, National and International Refugee Regime, Transnationalism and the Rise of Diasporas, Politics of Emigration and Diaspora Engagement Policies, Migration & Precarity & Solidarity, Regional & Global Governance of Migration and Asylum |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction | International Organization for Migration, Key Migration Terms: http://www.iom.int/key-migration-terms International Organization for Migration, World Migration Report, https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int UN 1951 Refugee Convention: http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10 Migrant Integration Policy Index: http://www.mipex.eu/ |
| 2) | Trends and Theories in Migration | Massey, D. S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A., & Taylor, J. E. (1993). Theories of international migration: A review and appraisal. Population and development review, 431-466. De Haas, H., Czaika, M., Flahaux, M. L., Mahendra, E., Natter, K., Vezzoli, S., & Villares‐Varela, M. (2019). International migration: Trends, determinants, and policy effects. Population and Development Review, 45(4), 885-922. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CZ57SJDKDJZRAU2EPDHP?target=10.1111/padr.12291 Wimmer, A. and Nina Glick Schiller, (2002) “Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: NationState Building, Migration, and the Social Sciences,” Global Networks Vol. 2, No. 4: pp. 301-334. Bilecen, B., Barglowski, K., Faist, T., & Kofman, E. (2019). Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection. Comparative Migration Studies, 7, 1-14. |
| 3) | The Ethics of Migration Governance | Carens, J. (1987) “Aliens and Citizens,” Review of Politics 49: pp. 251-73. Miller, D. (2010) “Why Immigration Controls Are Not Coercive: A Reply to Arash Abizadeh,” Political Theory 38: pp. 111-20. Bauböck, R. (2019). Mare nostrum: the political ethics of migration in the Mediterranean. Comparative migration studies, 7(1), 1-15. Abizadeh, A. (2008) “Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Border,” Political Theory 36: pp. 37–65. |
| 4) | The Emergence of Migration States | Weekly readings Torpey, J. (1998) “Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate ‘Means of Movement’,” Sociological Theory Vol. 16, No. 3: pp. 239-259. Hollifield, J. F. (2004). The emerging migration state 1. International migration review, 38(3), 885-912. Natter, K. (2021). Beyond the dichotomy of liberal and illiberal migration governance. In Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing. Case readings Massey, D. S. (1987). Understanding Mexican migration to the United States. American Journal of Sociology, 92(6), 1372-1403. Kasaba, R. (2011). Empire, State and People, In The Moveable Empire. University of Washington Press. Adamson, F. B., & Tsourapas, G. (2020). The migration state in the global south: Nationalizing, developmental, and neoliberal models of migration management. International Migration Review, 54(3), 853-882. |
| 5) | Politics of Incorporation | Weekly readings Ager, A., & Strang, A. (2008). Understanding integration: A conceptual framework. Journal of refugee studies, 21(2), 166-191. Kymlicka, W. (2020). Solidarity in diverse societies: Beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism. In Minorities and Populism–Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (pp. 41-62). Springer, Cham. Vertovec, S. (2019). Talking around super-diversity. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(1), 125-139. Case readings Şimşek, D. (2019). Transnational activities of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Hindering or supporting integration. International Migration, 57(2), 268-282. Doomernik, J., & Ardon, D. (2018). The city as an agent of refugee integration. Urban Planning, 3(4), 91-100. Errichiello, G. (2023). The ‘local turn’and everyday integration. The Pakistani middle-class migrants in Dubai. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 21(2), 217-229. |
| 6) | Citizenship and Globalization | Weekly readings Marshall, T. H. (1950). Citizenship and social class (Vol. 11, pp. 28-29). New York, NY: Cambridge. Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal (2000): Citizenship and identity: living in diasporas in post-war Europe?, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23:1, 1-15 Bloemraad, I., & Sheares, A. (2017). Understanding membership in a world of global migration:(How) does citizenship matter?. International Migration Review, 51(4), 823-867. Bauböck, R. (2017). Political membership and democratic boundaries. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, 60. Case readings Kirişçi, K. (2000). Disaggregating Turkish citizenship and immigration practices. Middle Eastern Studies, 36(3), 1-22. Çağlar, A., & Glick Schiller, N. (2021). Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes. Geographical Review, 111(2), 206-232. |
| 7) | Borders, Border Politics and Securitization of Migration | Weekly readings Huysmans, J. (2000). The European Union and the securitization of migration. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 38(5), 751-777. Bigo, D., & Guild, E. (2017). Policing at a distance: Schengen visa policies. In Controlling Frontiers (pp. 233-263). Routledge. Walters, W. (2010). Migration and security. In The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies (pp. 229-240). Routledge. Frontex, https://frontex.europa.eu/. Case readings Bilgin, P. (2011). The politics of studying securitization? The Copenhagen School in Turkey. Security Dialogue, 42(4-5), 399-412. Karadağ, S. (2019). Extraterritoriality of European borders to Turkey: an implementation perspective of counteractive strategies. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1), 1-16. Tazzioli, M., & Walters, W. (2016). The sight of migration: Governmentality, visibility and Europe’s contested borders. Global society, 30(3), 445-464. Koinova, M., Düvell, F., Kalantzi, F., De Jong, S., Kaunert, C., & Marchand, M. H. (2023). International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Migration studies, 11(1), 242-257. |
| 8) | National and International Refugee Regime | Weekly readings Betts, A., & Collier, P. (2017). “Chapter 1: Global Disorder”, In Refuge: Transforming a broken refugee system. Penguin UK. Benhabib, S. (2020). The end of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of sovereignty, territoriality, and human rights. Jus Cogens, 2(1), 75-100. Freier, L. F., Micinski, N. R., & Tsourapas, G. (2021). Refugee commodification: the diffusion of refugee rent-seeking in the Global South. Third World Quarterly, 1-20. Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, available at https://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10 Case readings Özçürümez, S, Julinda Hoxha, Ahmet İçduygu, Does social cohesion solve forced migration riddles? Troubled concepts and constrained practices in Turkey, Migration Studies, 2020;, mnaa011, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa011 Barbulescu, R. “Still a Beacon of Human Rights? Considerations on the EU Response to the Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2017): pp. 301-308. Wahlbeck, Ö. (2019). To share or not to share responsibility? Finnish refugee policy and the hesitant support for a common European asylum system. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 17(3), 299-316. Carrera, S., & Geddes, A. (2021). The EU pact on migration and asylum in light of the united nations global compact on refugees. International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole. |
| 9) | Transnationalism and the Rise of Diasporas | Weekly readings Basch, Linda; Glick Schiller, Nina & Szanton Blanc, Cristina (1994) Nations unbound: transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments and deterritorialized nation-states, Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, p. 1-21. Bauböck, R. & Faist, T. (2010) Diaspora and transnationalism: Concepts, theories and methods (p. 360). Amsterdam University Press, p. 9-34. Dufoix, S. (2018). Diaspora before it became a concept. In Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies (pp. 13-21). Routledge. Case readings Kaya, A. (2004). Political participation strategies of the Circassian diaspora in Turkey. Mediterranean politics, 9(2), 221-239. Koinova, M. (2018). Critical junctures and transformative events in diaspora mobilisation for Kosovo and Palestinian statehood. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(8), 1289-1308. Adamson, F. B. (2020). Non‐state authoritarianism and diaspora politics. Global Networks, 20(1), 150-169. |
| 10) | Politics of Emigration and Diaspora Engagement Policies | Weekly readings Østergaard-Nielsen, E. (2016). Sending country policies. In Integration processes and policies in Europe (pp. 147-165). Springer, Cham. Cummings, M. E., & Gamlen, A. (2019). Diaspora engagement institutions and venture investment activity in developing countries. Journal of International Business Policy, 2(4), 289-313. Alexandra Délano Alonso & Harris Mylonas (2017): The microfoundations of diaspora politics: unpacking the state and disaggregating the diaspora, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409160 Case readings Akçapar, Ş. K., & Aksel, D. B. (2017). Public diplomacy through diaspora engagement: The case of Turkey. Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, 22(3), 135-160. Baser, B., & Ozturk, A. E. (2020). Positive and negative diaspora governance in context: from public diplomacy to transnational authoritarianism. Middle East Critique, 29(3), 319-334. Alexandra Délano, “The diffusion of diaspora engagement policies: A Latin American agenda,” Political Geography, Vol. 41 (2014), pp. 90-100. Hong Liu and Els van Dongen, “China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance,” Journal of Contemporary China (2016), pp. 1-17. Palop‐García, P., & Pedroza, L. (2021). Do Diaspora Engagement Policies Endure? An Update of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) to 2017. Global Policy, 12(3), 361-371. |
| 11) | Migration, Precarity and Solidarity | Weekly readings Wise, R. D. (2015). Migration and Labour under Neoliberal Globalization. In Schierup, C. U., Munck, R., Likic-Brboric, B., & Neergaard, A. (Eds.). (2015). Migration, precarity, and global governance: Challenges and opportunities for labour. OUP Oxford. Schierup, C. U., Likić-Brborić, B., Wise, R. D., & Toksöz, G. (2018). Migration, civil society and global governance: an introduction to the special issue. Ilker Ataç, Kim Rygiel & Maurice Stierl (2016) Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins, Citizenship Studies, 20:5, 527-544, DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2016.1182681 Case readings Şenses, N. (2017). Rethinking migration in the context of precarity: The case of Turkey. In Politics of Precarity (pp. 99-117). Brill. Baban, F., Ilcan, S., & Rygiel, K. (2017). Syrian refugees in Turkey: Pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rights. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(1), 41-57. Goździak, E. M., & Main, I. (2020). Contesting Flexible Solidarity: Poland and the “Migration Crisis”. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2, 2. |
| 12) | Regional and Global Governance of Migration and Asylum | Weekly readings Pécoud, A. (2021). Narrating an ideal migration world? An analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Third World Quarterly, 42(1), 16-33. Aleinikoff, T. A. (2017). Toward a Global System of Human Mobility: Three Thoughts. AJIL Unbound, 111, 24-28. Betts, A., & Milner, J. (2019). Governance of the Global Refugee Regime. https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/WRC%20Research%20Paper%20No.13.pdf Ratha, D. (2021). Staying the course on global governance of migration through the COVID‐19 and economic crises. International Migration (Geneva, Switzerland), 59(1), 285. UN General Assembly, New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, available at https://www.unhcr.org/57e39d987 Case readings Martin, S. F., & Ferris, E. (2017). US leadership and the international refugee regime. Refuge: Canada's journal on refugees, 33(1), 18-28. Kale, B., & Erdoğan, M. (2019). The impact of GCR on local governments and Syrian refugees in Turkey. International Migration, 57(6), 224-242. Van Hear, N., Barbelet, V., Bennett, C., & Lutz, H. (2018). Refugia Roundtable: Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime. Migration and Society, 1(1), 175-194. |
| 13) | Project proposal presentations | Prepare for the project proposals. |
| 14) | Review and Discussion: The Future of Migration at a Period of Crises | There is no reading for this week. |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Gerekli okumalar için okuma paketi Itslearning platformunda elektronik formatta mevcuttur. Öğrencilerin her ders için okumaları ders saatinden ÖNCE yapmaları beklenmektedir. Önerilen okumalar: De Haas, H., Miller, M. J., & Castles, S. (2019). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world. Red Globe Press. (an earlier edition is also available in Turkish). Inglis, C., Li, W., & Khadria, B. (Eds.). (2019). The SAGE Handbook of International Migration. Sage. Diğer önerilen okumalar ders içeriği bölümünde bulunabilir. |
| References: | Reading pack for required readings is available in electronic format on Itslearning platform. The students are expected to do the readings for each class BEFORE class time. Recommended readings: De Haas, H., Miller, M. J., & Castles, S. (2019). The age of migration: International population movements in the modern world. Red Globe Press. (an earlier edition is also available in Turkish). Inglis, C., Li, W., & Khadria, B. (Eds.). (2019). The SAGE Handbook of International Migration. Sage. Other suggested readings can be found in the course content section. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Presentation | 3 | % 40 |
| Final | 4 | % 60 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice. | 3 |
| 2) | Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies. | 5 |
| 3) | Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences. | 2 |
| 4) | Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments. | 5 |
| 5) | Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy. | 3 |
| 6) | Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member. | 4 |
| 7) | Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development. | 2 |
| 8) | Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B2 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies. | 5 |
| 9) | Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives. | 2 |
| 10) | Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments. | 3 |
| 11) | Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era. | 5 |
| 12) | Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics. | 4 |