SAMPLE SYLLABUS – SUBJECT TO CHANGE SAMPLE SYLLABUS – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Page 1 HIST-UA 9452L01/ IDSEM-UG 9101L01/ SOC-UA 9452L01 Immigration NYU London Instructor Information ● Dr Nicky Busch Course Information ● Mondays 9.00-12.00. ○ Room 303 Course Overview and Goals This course aims to provide an understanding of immigration and its social and political consequences in Britain, France and Germany from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It also examines problems surrounding immigration in contemporary Europe. In particular the course looks at issues concerning racism and multiculturalism in Europe. Finally, the course examines the ways in which immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture. Class discussions based on prepared readings, lectures, guest speakers, field trips and three films. Upon Completion of this Course, students will be able to: • provide an understanding of the main immigration trends in Britain, France and Germany since 1850 • provide an understanding of the problems attending the social and political integration of immigrants in contemporary Western Europe • examine the concepts of integration, race and multiculturalism • examine the ways in which the memory of immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture Grading of Assignments The grade for this course will be determined according to these assessment components:
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HIST-UA 9452L01/ IDSEM-UG 9101L01/ SOC-UA 9452L01
Immigration
NYU London
Instructor Information ● Dr Nicky Busch
Course Information ● Mondays 9.00-12.00.
○ Room 303
Course Overview and Goals This course aims to provide an understanding of immigration and its social and political consequences in Britain, France and Germany from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It also examines problems surrounding immigration in contemporary Europe. In particular the course looks at issues concerning racism and multiculturalism in Europe. Finally, the course examines the ways in which immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture. Class discussions based on prepared readings, lectures, guest speakers, field trips and three films. Upon Completion of this Course, students will be able to:
• provide an understanding of the main immigration trends in Britain, France and Germany since 1850
• provide an understanding of the problems attending the social and political integration of immigrants in contemporary Western Europe
• examine the concepts of integration, race and multiculturalism
• examine the ways in which the memory of immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture
Grading of Assignments The grade for this course will be determined according to these assessment components:
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Assignments/Activities Description of Assignment
% of Final Grade
Due
Essay 1 (1,500 words) Essay chosen from list of questions that will be provided in class 20%
Film Review
(1,500 words) Students are asked to select one of the three films viewed in class and provide a critical account of the way in which themes of the course are addressed in the film
20%
Presentation Ten-minute presentation to be given in class. Suggested presentation topics will be posted on NYU Classes
20%
Essay 2 (2,000 words) Essay topics will be provided in class and posted on NYU classes 30%
Class Participation 10%
Failure to submit or fulfill any required course component results in failure of the class
Grades
Letter grades for the entire course will be assigned as follows:
Letter Grade Percent Description
A Example: 93.5% and higher Exceptional level of accurate, clear and analytical writing
B Example: 82.5% - 87.49% Very good level of written
work but falling short of the highest level
C Example: 72.5% - 77.49% Satisfactory and sufficiently accurate written work
D Example: 62.5% - 67.49 Adequate level of written work but weakly analytical
F Example: 59.99% and lower Muddled, poorly presented written work
Course Materials
Required Textbooks & Materials
• L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850, University of Illinois Press, 2005 0-252-07294-4
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• Castles, S, De Hein, H, & Miller, M, The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World Palgrave Macmillan; 5th edition (13 Dec 2013)
Optional Textbooks & Materials I Anderson, B. Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013) A Bramwell (ed.), Refugees in the Age of Total War (1988 Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders’, Review of Politics, Spring 1987, pp.251-273 A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed, Contemporary debates in applied ethics (2005) 1405115483 Cohen, R The Cambridge Survey of World Migration Cambridge University Press (13 May 2010) De Haas, H Migration Theory: Understanding Human Mobility. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990) David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews (1994) Ehrenreich, B and Arlie Russel Hochschild (eds) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. London: Granta Books. Geddes, A (2000) Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe?, Manchester: Manchester University Press Jordan, Bill and Franck Duvell Irregular Migration: The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002 M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 Z. Layton-Henry, The politics of immigration (1992) 0-631-16744-7 Matthew Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum (2004) Robin Gwynne, Huguenot Heritage (1985) Tony Kushner, Remembering Refugees: Then and Now (2006) K. Malik, The meaning of race, (1996) 0-333-62857-6 Michael Marrus, The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (1985/2003) B. Parekh, Rethinking multiculturalism (2006) 1-4039-4453-9 B. Barry, Culture and equality (2001) 0-7456-2228-3 J. Scott, The politics of the veil (2007) 978-0-691-1243-5 A. Hargreaves, Multi-ethnic France (2007) 978-0-415-39783-4 G. Dench, K. Gavron, M. Young, The new East End (2006) 978-1-86197-928-5 H. Chapman and L.Frader eds, Race in France (2004) 1-57181-857-X C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation state (1999) 0-19-829540-5 D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2 G. Gerstle and J. Mollenkopf, E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and historical perspectives in immigrant political incorporation (2001) 0871543079 R. Chin, G. Eley et al, After the Nazi Racial State (2009) 978-0-472-03344-1 N. Green ‘A French Ellis Island? Museums, memory and history in the United States and France’, History Workshop Journal, 63, 2007 Ruhs, M. The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration, Princeton: Princeton University Press Van Hear, N. (2014) ‘Reconsidering Migration and Class’, International Migration Review, 48: S100–S121 Vertovec, S and Cohen, R, Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism (25 June 1999
There are many internet sites dealing with immigration, above all with contemporary immigration. The BBC website is useful. Among the more specialised websites are the following: www.ein.org.uk, www.immigrationindex.org, http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn, www.ercomer.org/wwwvl, http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/, www.opendemocracy.net For immigration in British history see http://movinghere.org.uk
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Course Schedule Session/D
ate Topic Reading Assignment Due
Session 1:
a) Introduction to the course: in this session we will discuss expectations regarding class participation, readings, assessment, site visits and guest speakers. b) Migration in the contemporary world. Screening of documentary ‘Exodus’ and excerpts from Fire at Sea, followed by class discussion.
Key questions: Why do people migrate? What is meant by terms such as ‘economic
Essential reading: Trilling, D (2018) Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, Picador Castles, S, De Hein, H, & Miller, M, The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World Palgrave Macmillan; 5th edition (13 Dec 2013) Introduction and chapters 1-4 Supplementary reading: Castles S. 2004. Why migration policies fail. Ethnic and Racial Studies 27:205-27 de Haas, H. (2008). "The Myth of Invasion -The inconvenient realities of African Migration to Europe." Third World Quarterly(7): 1305-1322 de Haas, H. (2007). "Turning the tide? Why development will not stop migration." Development and Change 38(5): 819-841. Manning, Alan and Roy, Sanchari (2009) Culture Clash or Culture Club? National Identity in Britain. The Economic Journal Vol. 120, No. 542, pp. F72 F100, February 2009 Hatton, T. and Williamson, J. (1998) The Age of Mass Migration, Causes and Economic Impact, Oxford University Press, Oxford
nt Due immigrant’, ‘asylum seeker’ and refugee? Are some migrants more welcome in Western Europe than others? Why is this so? This session introduces a number of issues and debates relevant to this course.
Session 2: a) Defining key
terms and concepts: assimilation, integration and multiculturalism
Key questions: What is meant by the term ‘assimilation’ and how does it differ from ‘integration’? What does ‘multiculturalism’ mean as it is used across different national contexts? This session introduces key terms and concepts that are used in the discussion of
Essential reading: Malik, K (2015) The Failure of Multiculturalism: Community Versus Society in Europe, Foreign Affairs. Available https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/western-europe/failure-multiculturalism L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat, 1-26. Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism (2006) ch.7 F. Fukuyama, ‘Identity and migration’, Prospect, February 2007, 26-31 Supplementary reading: B. Barry, Culture and equality (2001) 0-7456-2228-3 G. Gerstle and J. Mollenkopf, E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and historical perspectives in immigrant political incorporation (2001) 08715430
Essential reading: Evans, G and Menon, A (2017) Brexit and British Politics, Polity. Preface and Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5. Bridget Anderson, Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, Oxford University Press, Introduction.
Supplementary reading: M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 Z. Layton-Henry, The politics of immigration (1992) 0-631-16744-7
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Session/Date Topic Reading Assignme
nt Due immigration across Western European states.
b) The politics of immigration in contemporary Britain: political parties and the EU question Screening of excerpts from news programmes on immigration and the EU followed by class discussion.
D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2 Geddes, A (2000) Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe?, Manchester: Manchester University Press IPPR (2007) Britain’s immigrants: an economic profile. London: Institute for Public Policy Research. D Goodhart (2013) The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration
Session 3:
Trip to Museum of London in the Docklands Learning outcomes: In order to understand contemporary migration we need to understand the legacy of British involvement in Empire and the slave trade.
Essential reading: Legacies of British Slave Ownership Data Base. UCL. Available: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Session 4: The ethics of
immigration control: the case for open borders and the case for
Essential reading: J. Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders’, Review of Politics, Spring 1987, pp.251-273 D. Miller, ‘Immigration: the case for limits’, in A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed, Contemporary debates in applied ethics
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Session/Date Topic Reading Assignme
nt Due closed borders
Key questions: Are open borders feasible and/or desirable? Is migration a human right? In this session we discuss immigration in terms of rights and ethics.
b) The Economics of immigration
Screening of ‘British Workers Wanted’
Key questions: what is the ‘lump of labour fallacy’? How do economists measure the effects of immigration? What are the economic outcomes of immigration in Western Europe? This session looks at migration and its effects on Western European economies.
Supplementary reading: Ruhs, M. And Martin, P. (2008) ̳Numbers vs rights: Trade-offs and guest worker programs‘, International Migration Review, 42(1): 249-265 A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990
The ethics of immigration control: the case for open borders and the case for closed borders
Key questions: Are open borders feasible and/or desirable? Is migration a human right? In this session we discuss immigration in terms of rights and ethics.
Essential reading: J. Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders’, Review of Politics, Spring 1987, pp.251-273 D. Miller, ‘Immigration: the case for limits’, in A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed, Contemporary debates in applied ethics
Supplementary reading: Ruhs, M. And Martin, P. (2008) ̳Numbers vs rights: Trade-offs and guest worker programs‘, International Migration Review, 42(1): 249-265 A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990
b) The Economics of immigration
Screening of ‘British Workers Wanted’
Key questions: what is the ‘lump of labour fallacy’? How do economists measure the effects of immigration? What are the economic outcomes of immigration in Western Europe? This session looks at migration and its effects on Western European economies.
Essential reading : Economic of Brexit. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/category/economicsofbrexit/ The Economics of Brexit: What is at Stake? Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 33, Number S1, 2017, pp. S1–S3 Ruhs, M and Vargas-Silva, C (2014) Briefing: the Labour Market Effects of Immigration,
nt Due University of Oxford. Available to download from www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk Class and Red Pepper (2014) Why Immigration is good for all of us Supplementary reading: Legrain, P (2009) Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, Abacus
Session 5:
a) Race and racism in contemporary Europe Key questions: What is meant by race? Is race a question of biology or culture? How has race been discussed and utilized throughout history? What is meant be eugenics? Why is it necessary to think about ‘race’ when discussing immigration past and present?
b) guest speaker
Essential reading: Eddo-Lodge, R (2017) Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury. Fanon, F The Fact of Blackness in Back, L and Solomos, J (2000) Theories of Race and Racism: a Reader. Fanon, F (1952) Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press. K. Malik, The Meaning of Race, ch.6 Castles, S. And Miller, M. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Palgrave, MacMillan, chapter 11
Supplementary reading: Abbas, T. (2005) Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure. London: Zed Books Limited. Bagguley, P. and Hussain, Y. (2008) Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate. Bell, M. (2008) Racism and Equality in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bloch, A. and Solomos, J. (2010) Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan Castles, S. And Miller, M. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Palgrave, MacMillan, chapter 10 Clark, K. and Drinkwater, S. (2007) Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market: Dynamics and Diversity, Bristol: The Policy Press. A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990) Fenton, S. (2010) Ethnicity. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
nt Due Finney, N. and Simpson, L. (2009). 'Sleepwalking to Segregation'? Challenging Myths about Race and Migration. Bristol: The Policy Press. D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2
Session 6: Trip to Black Cultural Archive and Brixton – map will be provided Note this trip is on a Friday make-up class day.
Session 7:
a) Immigration and Film Dirty Pretty Things, director Stephen Frears, 2001 b) Race, Nation and Multicultural Politics in Britain since 1945
Essential reading: Heath and Demireva (2012) Has multiculturalism failed in Britain? In Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol 37. Issue 1 Burrell, Kathy (ed.) (2009) Polish migration to the UK in the 'new' European Union: after 2004. Farnham ; Burlington (Vt.): Ashgate Gilliat-Ray, S (2010). Muslims in Britain: An Introduction. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 Chapters 12 and 18 Supplementary reading: C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation state (1999) 0-19-829540-5 D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2
Session 8: a) Immigration and Film Fear Eats the Soul, director Rainer Fassbinder (1974) b) Race, Nation and Multicultural Politics in
Essential reading: R. Chin, G. Eley et al, After the Nazi Racial State (2009)
Supplementary reading: C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation state (1999) 0-19-829540-5 D. Orlow, 'The GDR's failed search for a national identity, 1945-1989', German Studies Review (2006) J. H. Brinks, 'Political Anti-Fascism in the German Democratic Republic', Journal of Contemporary History (1997). Online via JSTOR
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Session/Date Topic Reading Assignme
nt Due Germany since 1945 Key questions: How does Germany’s history impact on contemporary attitudes to immigration and ethnic minorities?
D. Diner and C. Gundermann, 'On the ideology of Antifascism', New German Critique, (1996). T. Ahbe, Der DDR-Antifaschismus. Diskurse und Generationen, Kontexte und Identitäten. Ein Rückblick über 60 Jahre (Leipzig, 2007) J Herf, Divided Memory. The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies (Cambridge, Mass. 1997), ch. 1-6, 9-10 B. Niven, Facing the Nazi Past. United Germany and the Third Reich (London, 2002) K. Jarausch (ed.), After Unity. Reconfiguring German Identity (Cambridge, 1997), ch.1 S. Berger, Inventing the Nation: Germany (London, 2004), ch. 8
Session 9: a) Immigration and Film La Haine, director Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995
b) Race, Nation and Multicultural Politics in France
Key questions: what are the key issues surrounding immigration in contemporary France? What was the ‘headscarf affair’? What can discussion of France’s attitudes to immigrants and ethnic minorities tell us about
Essential reading: Fredette, J (2014) Constructing Muslims in France: Discourse, Public Identity and the Politics of Citizenship. Introduction and chapters 5 and 6. Hargreaves, G (2007) Multi-ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society. ch.4
Supplementary reading: J. Scott, The politics of the veil (2007) 978-0-691-1243-5 H. Chapman and L.Frader eds, Race in France (2004) 1-57181-857-X Schneider, C. Police Power and Race Riots in Paris, 36 POL.& SOC’Y 133, 141 (2008)Kimberly Hamilton, Patrick Simon & Clara Veniard, The Challenge of French Diversity (Nov. 1, 2004), http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/ Quentin Duroy, North African Identity and Racial Discrimination in France: A Social Economic Analysis of Capability Deprivation, 69 REV.SOC. ECON. 307, 315 (2011). Ellen Wiles, Headscarves, Human Rights, and Harmonious Multicultural Society: Implications of the French Ban for Interpretations of Equality, 41 LAW &SOC’Y REV. 699, 704 (2007).
nt Due broader questions about the state and society in France?
Session 10:
a) Refugees: 1930s-2017 GUEST SPEAKER
Essential reading: Trilling, D (2018) Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, Picador Fargues, P (2015) 2015: The Year we Mistook Refugees for Invaders, Migration Policy Centre Long, K When Refugees Stopped Being Migrants: Movement, Labour and Humanitarian Protection. Migration Studies, 2013, Volume I, Number 1 Additional readings will be posted on NYU Classes. Supplementary reading: Bloch, A (2002) The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain, Palgrave. Introduction and chapters 3 and 4 A Bramwell (ed.), Refugees in the Age of Total War (1988) Matthew Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum (2004) Tony Kushner, Remembering Refugees: Then and Now (2006) Humphris, R and Sigona, N (2016)Becoming Adult: Mapping Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in England
Session 11: a) Gender
and migration Key questions: What insights can a gendered account of contemporary and historical migration movements provide? Why does gender matter when discussing labour migration? b) Diasporas and transnational
Essential reading: Anderson, B (2006) A Very Private Business: Migration and Domestic Work, Oxford: COMPAS Working Paper 28 Anderson, B (2000) Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour, London/New York: Zed Books Busch, N (2012) The employment of migrant nannies in the UK: negotiating social class in an open market for commoditised in-home care, Social and Cultural Geography. Helma Lutz (ed.) Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme. Aldershot: Ashgate Supplementary reading: Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel Hochschild (eds) Global Woman: Nannies,
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Session/Date Topic Reading Assignme
nt Due mobility in a global era
Key questions: What is meant by ‘diaspora’? Are diasporas historical or contemporary phenomena? How does diaspora differ from transnationalism?
In class activity: the world in a classroom - mapping the class by diaspora and transnational movements.
Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. London: Granta Books. Busch, N (2014) Au pairs within a global political economy of care: outcomes of a deregulated childcare market and au pair policy vacuum in the UK, Papers in Political Economy/ La revue Interventions économiques. Chang, G (2000) Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy. Cambridge: South End Press J.H. Momsen (ed.) Gender, Migration and Domestic Service. London: Routledge. Parreñas, RS (2001) Servants of Globalization, Stanford University Press. Essential reading: Cohen, R (2008) Global Diasporas: an Introduction. Chapter 1 and Chapter 8 Vertovec, S. (2007) 'New Complexities of Cohension in Britatin: Super-diversity, Transnationalism and Civil-Integration', report written for the Commission on Integration and Cohesion (CIC). Supplementary reading: Benedictus, Leo, London: the world in one city (A special celebration of the most cosmopolitan city in the world), Guardian, 21 January 2005; electronically accessed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/london/0,,1394802,00.html, http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1395534,00.html Hannerz, U. Flows, boundaries and Hybrids: Flows Keywords in Transnational Anthropology’, Working Paper, Department of Social Anthropology. Stockholm University, Research Program on Transnational Communities. available at www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working%20papers/hannerz.pdf Mavrommatis, G. (2009) ‘A Racial Archaeology of Space: A Journey through the Political Imaginings of Brixton and Brick Lane, London’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35, pp. 1-19
Session 12: a) London and Immigration – Trip to Bishopsgate Archive and Brick Lane
Essential reading: G. Dench, K. Gavron, M. Young, The New East End, ch.9
Session 13: a) Representations of immigration in the arts
b) Immigration in history: examining successive waves of immigration across Western Europe
Key questions: how is the immigrant experience represented in the arts? What value is there in looking beyond policy, politics, economics discourses?
Essential reading: S Selvon The Lonely Londoners Old and new immigrants in France, Germany and the UK
Essential reading: L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat chs 1-7
Session 14: Presentations and class discussion
Session 15: Presentations and class discussion
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Instructor Bio Dr Nicky Busch is a lecturer, researcher and author. Her research focus is on migration and low-paid and informal labour in the UK. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. Her book ‘As an Equal’ was published by Zed Books in 2018.
