| POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| POL3612 | International Migration | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 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: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. DAMLA BAYRAKTAR AKSEL |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. DAMLA BAYRAKTAR AKSEL |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
| Course Objectives: | 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. The course also aims at improving the written and oral communication skills of the students, as well as analytical reasoning and creativity. The course requirements include tasks that bring together students’ own reasoning with creative work, such as “Pecha Kucha Migration News” and “BAU Migration Story Podcast” |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who successfully complete this course: 1. Evaluate the political dimensions of international migration; 2. Gain knowledge about migration and asylum movements in history and in the current period; 3. Make sense of the relationship between social processes that cause and are created by migration; 4. Comprehend legal and institutional processes of different types of migration; 5. Evaluate the migration processes in Turkey in the context of its global position, together with its causes and consequences. |
| Migration theories and trends; the emergence of migration states; citizenship, rights and identities; incorporation policies; border policies; irregular migration, securitization and politicization of migration; national and international asylum regime; the rise of diasporas and transnational identity politics; diaspora inclusion policies; Turkey’s position as a migrant receiving and sending country. The teaching methods of the course are lecture, individual work, group work, reading and project. |
| 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) | Migration theories and trends | 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 Suggested readings Read: 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. |
| 3) | Emergence of migration states | Hollifield, J. F. (2004). The emerging migration state. International migration review, 38(3), 885-912. Suggested 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. |
| 4) | Citizenship, rights and identities | Bloemraad, I., & Sheares, A. (2017). Understanding membership in a world of global migration:(How) does citizenship matter? International Migration Review, 51(4), 823-867. Suggested readings T. H. Marshall (1950) Citizenship and social class (Vol. 11, pp. 28-29). Cambridge: CUP. Soysal, Y. N. (1995). Limits of citizenship: Migrants and postnational membership in Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chapter 3, p. 29-44. |
| 5) | Borders and border policies | D. Fassin (2011) Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times, Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 213-226. Frontex https://frontex.europa.eu/ Suggested readings W. Walters (2015) Migration, vehicles and politics: Three theses on viapolitics, European Journal of Social Theory, 18(4): 469-488. |
| 6) | Irregular Migration, Securitization and Politicization of Migration | D. Bigo (2002) ‘Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease’, Alternatives 27, p. 63-92. Suggested readings M. Collyer (2006) Migrants, Migration and the Security Paradigm: Constraints and Opportunities, Mediterranean Politics, 11:2, 255-270. |
| 7) | National and international refugee regime | S. Martin (2010), Forced Migration, the Refugee Regime and the Responsibility to Protect, Global Responsibility to Protect 2: 38-59. Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, available at https://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10 UN General Assembly, New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, available at https://www.unhcr.org/57e39d987 Suggested readings Aleinikoff, T. A. (2017). Toward a Global System of Human Mobility: Three Thoughts. AJIL Unbound, 111, 24-28. |
| 8) | MIDTERM EXAM | There is no reading for this week. Students are expected to be prepared for the midterm exam. |
| 9) | Rise of diasporas and transnational identity politics | R. Bauböck, & Faist, T. (2010) Diaspora and transnationalism: Concepts, theories and methods (p. 360). Amsterdam University Press, p. 9-34. Önerilen okumalar E. Østergaard-Nielsen (2003) The politics of migrants’ transnational political practices. International migration review, 37(3), 760-786. 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. |
| 10) | Diaspora engagement policies | A. Gamlen (2014) Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance, International Migration Review, p. 180-217. Suggested readings Delano & A. Gamlen (2014) Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations, Political Geography, 41, p. 43-53. Tsourapas, G. (2020) Theorizing state-diaspora relations in the Middle East: Authoritarian emigration states in comparative perspective. Mediterranean Politics, 25(2), 135-159. |
| 11) | Turkey as a Country of Migration | A. İçduygu & D. Aksel (2013), ‘Turkish migration policies: A critical historical retrospective’, Perceptions. Directorate General for Migration Management, https://www.goc.gov.tr/ Suggested readings K. Kirişci (2007) Turkey: A Country of Transition from Emigration to Immigration, Mediterranean Politics, 12:1, 91-97. |
| 12) | Turkey and its Citizens Living Abroad | F. Adamson (2019), ‘Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s), International Migration Review, 53(1), p. 210-236. D. Aksel, D. B. (2014). Kins, distant workers, diasporas: constructing Turkey’s transnational members abroad. Turkish Studies, 15(2), 195-219. Presidency on Turks Abroad and Related Communities, https://www.ytb.gov.tr/ Suggested readings Kaya (2012), Transnational citizenship: German-Turks and liberalizing citizenship regimes, Citizenship Studies, 16:2, 153-172. |
| 13) | Group presentations | There is no reading for this week. Students are expected to be prepared for their presentations. |
| 14) | REVISION & Q/A SESSION | There is no reading for this week. |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Weekly readings will be uploaded on ItsLearning at the beginning of the semester. Please note that all book chapters and articles listed on the syllabus are also accessible through the BAU Library. The PPT files will be shared on ItsLearning following each class. ------- Haftalık ders okumalarının tamamı, dönem başında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. Ders izlencesinde yer alan tüm kitap bölümleri ve makalelere BAU Kütüphanesi’nden de erişilebilir. PowerPoint dosyaları, hafta bazında ve işlenen ders sonrasında ItsLearning’e yüklenir. |
| References: | Assignment guidelines are uploaded to Itslearning at the beginning of the semester. --- Ödevlere dair kılavuzlar dönem başında Itslearning’e yüklenir. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Presentation | 1 | % 10 |
| Project | 1 | % 30 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 30 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 70 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 12 | 36 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 80 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 4 |
| Project | 5 | 20 |
| Midterms | 1 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 |
| Total Workload | 144 | |
| 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. | 2 |
| 2) | Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies. | 3 |
| 3) | Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences. | 3 |
| 4) | Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments. | 4 |
| 5) | Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy. | 2 |
| 6) | Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member. | 5 |
| 7) | Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development. | 5 |
| 8) | Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 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. | 3 |
| 10) | Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments. | 2 |
| 11) | Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era. | 3 |
| 12) | Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics. | 2 |