Lehrende: Jessica Steinman
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Ethnologie
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: This seminar, which focuses on the current issues of migration in Southeast Asia, seeks to provide students with a well-rounded understanding about migration in Southeast Asia and to raise issues for students to think critically about existing research, approaches, and questions surrounding migration in the region. Migration has long shaped the very nature of societies in South-East Asia. The region has attracted migrants because of the opportunities it offers and because it provides a safe haven during periods of dynastic and political change in other regions. Migrants from China have been a particularly important element in forming the economic, social and political landscape of South-East Asia. On the other hand, over the last few decades, Southeast Asian countries have been experiencing unprecedented rapid economic growth. Scholars have duped the phenomenon as a Southeast Asian developmental miracle. While experiencing rapid growth, rural poverty across the region remains obstinately high, which, coupled with a decline in agriculture, is a push factor for low-wage workers searching for economic opportunity elsewhere. The World Bank estimated nearly seven million - or two-thirds - of approximately 10 million international migrants living and working in Asean come from within the region. In 2017, 8 percent of the world's migrants were from the ASEAN countries. However, as the countries in the region have porous borders and free movement agreement within the context of ASEAN, this number could be higher. Thus, migration is one of the most socio-economic and political issues in the region. This seminar seeks to provide students with information about this important issue in Southeast Asia. Course Format The course is a seminar, focusing on discussion-based learning with the instructor and fellow students to provide a concentrated, in-depth focus on a particular topic than lectured classes. All the required and additional readings will be available on the Moodle page of the course. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing the course, students should be able to: Critically discuss theories and current issues in migration in Southeast Asia. Aware of research methodology for studying migration in Southeast Asia.
Organisatorisches: Course Requirements Students registered for this course are expected to attend classes and participate in the discussions. All students must read the required readings, and give one presentation. In-class presentations should connect to the student's research paper and/or the topics discussed in class. Students are to prepare a final paper (around 2500 - 3000 words) on a subject connected to the topics discussed in the course. Papers should include the critical and comparative analysis of class readings on the topic and include ideas on the applicability of the readings. Seminar papers are evaluated according to a number of criteria including the: • Scholarly relevance of the research; • the relevance and adequacy of the research methodology; • critical use of a wide range of literature and theories; • the originality of the argument; • consistency and coherence of the argument; • form and language of the presentation.
