Migration &
Culture 2001
Koptiuch/ASU
West
WEEKLY SYLLABUS
WK 1 8/23 INTRODUCTION
TO THE
COURSE
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VIDEO:
The
Unwanted, 1975 (50 min)
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Arizona Republic, Special Report:
Dying to Work.
August 25, 2001 (read it!)
WK 2 8/30 MIGRATION AS A
PATTERNED
PROCESS OF
GLOBALIZATION OF CAPITAL & CULTURE
We
will spend part of today’s class in a computer lab.
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Saskia Sassen, "Why Migration?" Report on the
Americas 25(1)1992:
14-19
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Nina Schiller, et al, "Transnationalism: A New
Analytic Framework
for Understanding Migration," in Towards a Transnational
Perspective on
Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Reconsidered.
Ed. Schiller et al. New York: Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences,
1992: 1-24.
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Caroline B. Brettell, "Theorizing Migration in
Anthropology"
in Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines, ed. Brettell
& James
F. Hollifield. Routledge, 2000: 97-135
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Amitava Kumar, "Language." From his
Passport Photos,
U Calif P 2000: 16-34
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DUE: Family
Migration Map—make a
map/chart/drawing/collage/poem/etc to show
the patterns of your own family’s migration routes
WK 3 9/6 ETHNOGRAPHY OF
MIGRATION/
FIGURES OF AN ALIEN
NATION
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Cathy Small, Voyages: From Tongan Villages to
American Suburbs.
(first half)
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Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins, "Why
Can't People
Feed Themselves?" From Food First: Beyond the Myth of
Scarcity, Institute
for Food & Development 1977, reprinted in Annual Editions
in Anthropology
99/00, Dushkin Pub Group
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VIDEO:
clips from
Men in Black and The Arrival
WK 4 9/13 VOYAGES HERE
AND THERE
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Cathy Small, Voyages: From Tongan
Villages to
American Suburbs. (finish)
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Robert Smith, "Mixteca in NY; NY in
Mixteca,"
Report on the Americas 26(1)1992:39-41
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Sarah Mahler, "First Stop:
Suburbia," Report
on the Americas 26(1)1992:20-24
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VIDEO:
Invisible
Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in California, 1993 (40 min)
WK 5 9/20 REFUGEES IN
GLOBAL MIGRATIONS
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Jo Ann Koltyk, New Pioneers in the
Heartland:
Hmong Life in Wisconsin. (all)
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Marc Cooper, "The Heartland’s Raw
Deal: How
Meatpacking is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass," The
Nation Feb 3,
1997: 11-17
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Stephen Castles & Mark J
Miller, selections
from "Migrations in the period of global economic
restructuring," in their
The Age of Migration, MacMillan 1998, pp 78-79, 84-91, 160-161
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Susan Forbes Martin, from her
Refugee Women,
Zed Books 1992: 1-6, 16-31
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Liisa H. Malkki, "National
Geographic: the Rooting
of Peoples and Territorialization of National Identity Among
Scholars and
Refugees," in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical
Anthropology.
Eds. Akhil Gupta & James Ferguson, Duke UP, 1997:52-74
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Web: "Refugees
&
Migration"
http://www.oneworld.org/guides/migration/index.html
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Web: "Evolution
of
the Term ‘Refugee’"
http://www.refugees.org/news/fact_sheets/refugee_definition.htm
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VIDEO:
Bui
doi: Life Like Dust, 1995 (28 min)
WK 6 9/27
IMMIGRATION/ASSIMILATION/ALIENATION
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Leo R. Chavez--Shadowed Lives:
Undocumented
Immigrants in American Society (all)
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Néstor Rodrîguez, "The Real ‘New
World Order’: The Globalization of Racial & Ethnic
Relations in the
Late Twentieth Century," in The Bubbling Cauldron: Race,
Ethnicity, &
the Urban Crisis, ed. Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin,
U Minn P,
1995: 211-225
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Web: "A
Mexican Town that Transcends All Borders," NY Times July
21, 1998
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/072198immigration.html
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Web: "Illegal
Alien
Resident Population,"
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/illegalalien/index.htm
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VIDEO:
Uneasy
Neighbors, 1989 (35 min)
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DUE:Short
Essay (3-5 pp. based on readings. See
instruction sheet)
WK 7 10/4 BORDERLINKS
FIELDTRIP TO NOGALES, SONORA,
MEXICO
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Carpool to Tucson: meet at 7:00 am
in parking
lot south of library;
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We will return around 8 pm
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BorderLinks Reading Packet—read
these articles
to prepare for trip
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Everyone will chip in for
gas
WK 8 10/11 THE US/MEX BORDER
& ANTI-MEXICAN
IMMIGRATION
DISCOURSE
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Leo R. Chavez, "Manufacturing
Consensus on an
Anti-Mexican Immigration Discourse," from his Covering
Immigration: Popular
Images and the Politics of the Nation. U Cal P, 2001:
215-262
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VIDEO:Go Back to Mexico, 1994 (57
min)
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DUE: Report
on BorderLinks Fieldtrip (1-2 pp) Write about
one or two key
aspects that impressed you most about the trip, particularly
in light of
our course focus on migration, and explain why.
WK 9 10/18 GENDERED
DISLOCATIONS
AND MIGRATIONS
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Parreñas—Servants of Globalization,
intro
and chaps 1-3 (pp. 1-79)
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Luin Goldring, "Blurring Borders:
Constructing
Transnational Community in the Process of Mexico-U.S.
Migration,"
Research in Community Sociology, v. 6(1996):69-104
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B. Lindsay Lowell, Rodolfo de la
Garza, Mike
Hogg, "Remittances, U.S. Latino Communities, and Development
in Latin American
Countries," Migrationworld 28(5)2000:13-17
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VIDEO: Modern
Heroes, Modern Slaves, 1997 (45 min)
WK 10 10/25 FILIPPINA
DOMESTIC
WORKERS IN TRANSNATIONAL
CIRCUITS
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Parreñas—Servants of Globalization,
chap
7 & conclusion (pp. 197-254)
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Charles S. Clark, "The New
Immigrants,"
Congressional Quarterly Researcher Jan 24, 1997:49-72 (reprint
in Annual
Editions: Race & Ethnic Relations 2000)
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Stephen Castles & Mark J.
Miller, "New Ethnic
Minorities and Society," in The Age of Migration:
International Population
Movements in the Modern World. Macmillan Press 1998
(second edition),
212-252
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VIDEO:
New
Faces on Main Street, 1998 (60 min)
WK 11 11/1 AFRICANS IN
AMERICA, NEW MIGRANTS AND OLD
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Paul Stoller, Jaguar: A Story of
Africans in
America (all)
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Selection on the Great Migration
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VIDEO:
Up South, 1996 (28 min), Displaced in the New South (1995) (57
min)
WK 12 11/8
(IM)MIGRATION
AND SOCIO-LEGAL ISSUES
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Guest visitor: Attorney Milagros
Cisñeros
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David Masci, "Debate Over Immigration,"
Congressional
Quarterly July 14, 2000: 571-580 (reprint in Annual Editions:
Race &
Ethnic Relations 2000)
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Korematsu v US (1944)—court case
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Peter Kwong, "Intro" to Forbidden
Workers: Illegal
Chinese Immigrants & American Labor. NY: The New Press,
1997, 1-17
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Kristin Koptiuch, "‘Cultural Defense’ and
Criminological
Displacements: Gender, Race, and (Trans)Nation in the Legal
Surveillance
of US Diaspora Asians," in Displacement, Diaspora, and
Geographies of Identity.
Ed. Smadar Lavie & Ted Swedenburg. Duke Univ Press
1996, 215-233
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Robert S. Kahn, "Florence Prison," in
Other People’s
Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade. Westview
Press, 1996:133-147
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VIDEO:
Dateline
clip, Tom Brokaw 8/3/01
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With Liberty & Justice For All (32
min); In the
Shadow of the Law (58 min)
WK 13 11/15 DUE:CASE
STUDY ETHNOGRAPHY REPORT (4-6 pp.)
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Brief presentation of your case study
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Report can be based on any kind of
fieldwork observations,
such as: immigrant interview, visit to immigrant services or
site (e.g.
day labor site; residence; law offices/courts; immigrant photo
place; safe
house/shelter; business catering to immigrants; festival;
etc). Observe,
talk with people, try to find any supporting literature/web
sites/brochures/etc
to establish a context for your case study, and ground your
discussion
in our study of migration concepts, patterns, processes
(yes—references
to course readings ARE appropriate, to help shape your
analysis
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George Lipsitz, "Immigration and
Assimilation:
Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin," in Dangerous Crossroads:
Popular Music,
Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. Verso 1994:
119-134
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Susan A. Phillips, "El Nuevo Mundo:
The Landscape
of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo Jose Vergara,"
American Anthropologist
103(1)2001:175-188
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Stuart Hall, "Minimal Selves,"
Identity Documents
6(1987: 44-46
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VIDEO:
Immigration:
Promise & Hope for Generations, 1997 (30 min)
WK 14 11/22
THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY
WK 15 11/29 NO
CLASS—DR. K.
AT CONFERENCE
WK 16 12/6 FINAL CLASS: POSTER SESSION
&
PORTFOLIO PROJECTS
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DUE: CURRENT
EVENTS POSTER/MAGAZINE COVER to display in class
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* Accompanied by a one-page explanation
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* Consider making your poster/magazine cover
accompany your
case study topic
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* See Chavez article from WK 8 for ideas—but use
your critical
perspective on migration
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DUE: FINAL
PORTFOLIO PROJECT
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* Include in portfolio all assignments you did
for this course.
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* Plus a Wrap-Up Essay (2-4 pp), reflecting on
all your projects,
key migration issues of concern and interest to you,
what you learned
in this course, etc.
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* Write your essay as an imagined conversation
between an
INS officer and an un/documented immigrant?? (see article by
Kumar WK 2
for ideas)
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* NOTE: you may revise earlier assignments to
enhance your
grade; let me know changes
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