BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| POL3612 | International Migration | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Hybrid |
| Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU |
| 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. |
Learning Outcomes
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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. |
Course Content
| 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. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| 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 Önerilen okumalar 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. Önerilen okumalar 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. |
| 5) | Incorporation policies | Ager, A., & Strang, A. (2008). Understanding integration: A conceptual framework. Journal of refugee studies, 21(2), 166-191. Önerilen okumalar A. Favell (2010) Integration and nations: the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe, In M. Martinello and J. Rath, Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation |
| 6) | 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/ Önerilen okumalar W. Walters (2015) Migration, vehicles and politics: Three theses on viapolitics, European Journal of Social Theory, 18(4): 469-488. |
| 7) | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| 8) | Irregular migration, securitization and politicization of migration | Read: D. Bigo (2002) ‘Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease’, Alternatives 27, p. 63-92. Önerilen okumalar M. Collyer (2006) Migrants, Migration and the Security Paradigm: Constraints and Opportunities, Mediterranean Politics, 11:2, 255-270. |
| 9) | 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 Önerilen okumalar Aleinikoff, T. A. (2017). Toward a Global System of Human Mobility: Three Thoughts. AJIL Unbound, 111, 24-28. |
| 10) | 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. |
| 11) | Diaspora engagement policies | A. Gamlen (2014) Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance, International Migration Review, p. 180-217. Önerilen okumalar Delano & A. Gamlen (2014) Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations, Political Geography, 41, p. 43-53. |
| 12) | 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/ 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/ |
| 13) | Group presentations | |
| 14) | REVISION & Q/A SESSION |
Sources
| 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: | Articles in Course Package --- Ödevlere dair kılavuzlar dönem başında Itslearning’e yüklenir. |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Presentation | 1 | % 10 |
| Project | 1 | % 35 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 15 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 25 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 75 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| 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 | |
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Knowledge of photographic and video media and ability to use basic, intermediate and advanced techniques of these media. | |
| 2) | Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate theories, concepts and uses of photography and video. | |
| 3) | Ability to employ theoretical knowledge in the areas of the use of photography and video. | |
| 4) | Familiarity with and ability to review the historical literature in theoretical and practical studies in photography and video. | |
| 5) | Ability in problem solving in relation to projects in photography and video. | |
| 6) | Ability to generate innovative responses to particular and novel requirements in photography and video. | |
| 7) | Understanding and appreciation of the roles and potentials of the image across visual culture | |
| 8) | Ability to communicate distinctively by means of photographic and video images. | |
| 9) | Experience of image post-production processes and ability to develop creative outcomes through this knowledge. | |
| 10) | Knowledge of and ability to participate in the processes of production, distribution and use of photography and video in the media. | |
| 11) | Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate global, regional and local problematics in visual culture. | |
| 12) | Knowledge of and ability to make a significant contribution to the goals of public communication. | |
| 13) | Enhancing creativity via interdisciplinary methods to develop skills for realizing projects. | |
| 14) | Gaining general knowledge about the points of intersection of communication, art and technology. |