Course Details
Country:
Germany
Institution:
Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) Summer School
Course Title:
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Course Number:
2.12
Course Description:
Regarding transnational migration, the European Union as a supranational community promotes a political reasoning between processes of consolidation and necessary conflict, between sovereignty and shared responsibility, between the right to define and delimit and the duty to negotiate. In ongoing economic crisis and facing unprecedented movements of people, the timeless normalcy of migration is often framed as crisis per se. Populist claims for cultural homogeneity and for closed borders undercut efforts for a common migration policy. As the visibility of migration increases in various ways, migrants are often represented and imagined as a homogenous mass of ‘the other’. This leads to a problematic understanding of migration as something similar to a natural disaster that requires to be controlled and governed from a strategic top-down perspective.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
CONF 397
Attachment Files:
KEINZ_Migration_B-Track_II_2020_EN.pdf
