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We are living in a time of global migration. Why do people migrate? What is the role of migrant labor? How does migration change a receiving society like Taiwan? What are the problems or struggles that migrants are facing? In this course, we answer the above question and understand the global problems surrounding migration through ten keywords: media, migrant workers, border, broker, refugee, gender and marriage, racism and discrimination, destination, identity, migrant placemaking, nostalgia, migrant mothers. This course collaborates with the “Inclusive Innovation” University Social Responsibility (USR) project. Students enrolled in the course will engage in the above issues through social practices.
我們身處於國際遷移與流動的年代，「移民與文化的十個關鍵字」課程將透過十個關鍵字，讓學生能夠了解圍繞著移民現象所衍生的問題，包括：人們為何遷移？移民會面對哪些困難和挑戰？移工在社會中扮演何種角色？新移民與移工如何改變台灣社會？這些關鍵字包括邊界、中介、難民、性別與婚姻、種族歧視、遷移的目的地、認同、移民空間、鄉愁、母職。本課程引導學生認識身處的移民社會，從大學生的知識和能力建構出發，善盡師生之社會責任
For students on the waiting list, please come to the first course on September 15. In the meeting, the professor will provide a Google form for the students who would like to be added to the course to provide more information.
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| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Course Schedule:
The course content is arranged for the full 18-week semester. Each week contains one section for three hours.
1 Course Overview
2 Migration and media [Guest lecture: Prof. Hsiao-Chuan Hsia and Ms. Esther Chow ]
3 No class. Mid-autumn festival.
4 Migrant Labor [Board game: migrant workers’ life]
5 Broker
6 Placemaking
7 Sunday 10/22 Fieldtrip (1) Taipei main station / Little Indonesia
8 Border and State
9 Racism [Guest lecture: Ms. Ibby Han]
10 No class. Proposal preparation [Assignment due: exhibition proposal]
11 Destination
12 Fieldtrip (2) Taipei Radio Station
13 Undocumented Immigrants [Guest lecture: Prof. Michelle Kuo]
14 How to interview migrants
15 Migrant motherhood
16 Identity [Guest lecture: Ms. Sally Sung]
17 Public Exhibition
18 Wrap up
Course Outline:
9/15 Week 1: Course Overview
Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 1, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.
https://nomanisanis.land/port-of-lies-review/
https://one-forty.org/tw/project/voice-of-migrant
9/22 Week 2: Migration and media
Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Chapter five, “Cinderella with a Mobile Phone” in Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.
Guest lecture: Prof. Hsiao-Chuan Hsia and Ms. Esther Chow
＊Teaching practice research: focus group (1)
9/29 Week 3: No class. Mid-autumn festival.
10/6 Week 4: Migrant Labor
Tseng, Yen-fen, and Hong-zen Wang. 2013. “Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan.” International Migration 51 (4): 1–19.
Supplementary readings:
Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 2, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.
[Board game: migrant workers’ life]
10/13 Week 5: Broker
"A Guard's story" and "The Military and Security Industry: Promoting Europe's Refugee Regime" in Holmes, Seth. 2020. Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry. Edited by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine. None edition. Oakland: PM Press.
Supplementary reading:
Henley, J. W. Migrante. S.l., 2020.
[Film Screening: Goodbye Loveable Strangers]
10/20 Week 6: Placemaking
Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, and Nina Glick Schiller. Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2018.
10/22 Week 7 (Sunday): Field trip (1)
Taipei main station/Little Indonesia
[fieldwork worksheet due in class]
[10/27 No class.]
11/3 Week 8: Border/State
Kivisto, Peter, and Thomas Faist. 2010. Chapter 7&8. Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration. Sociology for a New Century Series. Los Angeles: Pine Forge Press.
Supplementary readings:
Genova, Nicholas De, ed. 2017. The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Durham: Duke University Press Books.
[Film screening: The Lucky Women]
11/10 Week 9: Racism [Midterm week]
[Guest lecture: Ms. Ibby Han]
Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Chapter 4. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.
Supplementary readings:
Kung, I-chun, and Hong-zen Wang. 2006. “Socially Constructed Ethnic Division of Labour: Labour Control in Taiwanese-Owned Firms in Malaysia and Vietnam.” International Sociology 21 (4): 580–601. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580906065302.
11/17 Week 10: Proposal preparation
No class. [Assignment due on Moodle: exhibition proposal]
11/24 Week 11: Destination
Bélanger, Danièle, and Hong-zen Wang. 2013. “Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia.” Pacific Affairs 86 (1): 31–50.
Supplementary readings:
Wu, Kun-Lu, and I.-Chun Kung. 2016. “South Helps South; A Bridge between Oceans: The Role of Southeast Asian Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants in the New Southbound Policy.” Prospect Journal, no. 16: 105–23.
12/1 Week 12: Fieldtrip (2)
Taipei radio station
[fieldwork worksheet due in class]
12/8 Week 13: Undocumented Immigrants
Guest lecture: Prof. Michelle Kuo
Leon, Jason De, and Michael Wells. 2015. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. First edition. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Supplementary readings:
Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. California Series in Public Anthropology 28. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12/15 Week 14: How to interview migrants
Fouratt, Caitlin E. “Telling Migration Stories: Course Connections and Building Classroom Community.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 3, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146868.
Supplementary readings:
Guzmán, Jennifer R., Melanie A. Medeiros, and Gwendolyn Faulkner. “Teaching Im/Migration through an Ethnographic Portrait Project.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 3, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146968.
＊Teaching practice research: focus group (2)
12/22 Week 15: Motherhood
Constable, Nicole. 2014. Born out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Supplementary readings:
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. “Mothering from a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families.” Feminist Studies 27 (2): 361–90.
12/29 Week 16: Identity
Guest lecture: Ms. Sally Sung
Appadurai, Arjun. 2019. “Traumatic Exit, Identity Narratives, and the Ethics of Hospitality.” Television & New Media 20 (6): 558–65.
Supplementary reading:
Zavella, Patricia. 2011. I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants
1/5 Week 17: Public Exhibition
1/12 Week 18: Wrap up
Course participation 30 pts.
Social practice 25 pts.
Fieldtrip worksheet 10 pts.
Final exhibition 35 pts.
Inclusive Innovation USR Project https://nccu-immigrants-digital-marketing.weebly.com/