Migration (Online) at Freie Universität Berlin

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Please visit our website www.fubis.org for any organisational changes that might affect the course programme. Regarding transnational migration, the EU promotes a political reasoning between processes of consolidation and necessary conflict, between sovereignty and shared responsibility, and between the right to define and delimit and the duty to negotiate. In a time of ongoing economic crisis and facing an unprecedented movement of people, the timeless normalcy of migration is often framed as a crisis per se. Populist claims for cultural homogeneity and for closed borders undercut efforts towards a common migration policy. As the visibility of migration increases in various ways, migrants are often represented and imagined as a homogeneous mass of "the other". This leads to a problematic understanding of migration as something to be controlled and governed solely from a top-down perspective. But the respective processes of negotiation on migration policy, within and across the outer borders of the Union, take place not only between the official institutions of nation-states but on all scales of European populations. They also take place from a bottom-up perspective in the centres and at the margins of societies alike. Departing from concepts of the anthropology of the state and of migration, we will first gain an overview of EU-level migration policy. Diving deeper into historical as well as recent migration and border management policies, we will analyse the conflicts, debates, and discourses around the last few years of increased immigration. Scaling further down to the legalisation market of AlmerÃa/Spain, we will encounter migrants' positions and perspectives, which reach beyond the usual framing of "the poor migrant" as "passive victim", viewed as a threat or as the "(anti-)hero" of globalisation. We will explore viewpoints of the EU, which be both constructively critical as well as graciously affirming of the spirit of the EU. We will encounter viewpoints of hope.

Migration (Online)

Freie Universität Berlin

Germany,

Berlin Steglitz

Migration (Online)

Freie Universität Berlin

Freie Universität Berlin

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