Department Political Science Fall 2014 Carleton University. Migration and Global Politics PSCI 5209A

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1 Department Political Science Fall 2014 Carleton University Migration and Global Politics PSCI 5209A Friday, 11:35-2:25 Confirm location on Carleton Central Instructor: Christina Gabriel Office: Loeb D692 Phone: x Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30 3:00 p.m. (or by appointment) Course Description: The purpose of this course is to review and interrogate the assumptions, debates and issues associated with the governance of international migration at the global level. In doing so, it seeks to unsettle some of the statist assumptions that underpin the regulation of migration. The seminar focuses on different and intersecting regimes of mobility including refugee, travel and labour (Koslowski 2011) by considering institutional mechanisms, socio-economic relations of power and normative dimensions of global governance. Format: This class is structured as a weekly three-hour seminar. Student preparation and participation is critical to its success. Each student is expected to come to all classes and must be prepared to actively participate. All required readings must be completed prior to each class. The last class in the semester will be an intensive student run conference where you will present your own research findings. Course Materials: Course material is available online through ARES and through the reserve desk at the library. Please advise the instructor immediately if you encounter difficulties in obtaining the course materials. I have requested that the following books be placed on reserve. Alexander Betts, editor Global Migration Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Ninna Nyberg Sørenson, editors The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. UK: Routledge. Pp Martin Geiger and Antoine Pecoud, editors Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People. UK: Palgrave-Macmillan. 1

2 Rey Koslowski, editor Global Mobility Regimes. New York: Palgrave- Macmillan. [ this is available as an e-book] Nicola Piper, editor Migration in the Global Political Economy. Colorado: Lynn Reinner Evaluation Summary: Students will be evaluated on the following basis Attendance and Participation: 15% 2 Critical 10% each: 20% In-Class Presentation 10% Research Essay 45% Workshop Paper Presentation & Discussant Role 10% Description: Two Critical Reviews* 20% Students will be required to write two critical reviews of five pages each. Each review will be based on two readings from one thematic area. Written reviews are due on the same day as the topic covered. Critical Review #1 Based on two assigned readings from September 26 or October 3 or October 10. Critical Review #2 Based on two assigned readings from October 17, or October 24 or November 7. Note: You cannot write a critical review on the same topic as your in-class presentation. In-Class Presentation of Required Reading: 10% During each class one student will lead a portion of the seminar discussion. The class presentation should be no longer than 15 to 20 minutes. It should not offer a summary of the week s reading. It is expected all members of the class will have read all the readings. Each presenter will offer an analysis of the readings by examining them in terms of the arguments advanced and the authors persuasiveness. An effort should be made to draw out common themes and where possible link the readings to broader course themes and topics. In addition to the formal oral presentation students will prepare two discussion questions in advance of the class. These questions must be circulated one week in advance of the presentation date. Presenters are required to submit a 3 page written summary of their presentation. The summary is due the same day as the presentation. 2

3 Research Essay* 45% Students will submit a research paper of double-spaced pages on a topic of choice related to the broad theme of migration and global governance. Essay topics must be approved by the instructor. Due Date: December 5, (Written topics must be submitted to the instructor by October 24, 2014). Paper Presentation at Student Conference: 10% Students will present their research paper at a mini student conference scheduled for December 5, Each student will also be responsible for discussing one of their colleague s presentations. More specific details will be distributed in class. Seminar Attendance & Participation: 15% Students will be evaluated on the basis of their active, informed and thoughtful participation in class discussions. Attendance will be taken. STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE ALL COURSE REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A FINAL GRADE *Policies on Assignments: All assignments in this course must be 12 pt font, double-spaced and have standard oneinch margins. They must include appropriate citations and bibliography. The University takes instructional offences (including plagiarism) very seriously. Please make sure that you are familiar with the regulations regarding instructional offences, which are outlined in the Calendar. Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date specified. They should be submitted directly to the Professor in class. If this is not possible use the Political Science Drop Box located on the sixth floor of the Loeb Building. The Drop Box is emptied daily at 4:00 p.m. Papers received after this time will be date stamped the following working day. Please do not submit papers to the staff in the Political Science Office or anyone else in the office. Late papers without a date stamp will be assessed a penalty based on the date the Professor actually receives the paper. Do not slip assignments under my office door, post them on my office door or place them it in my mailbox. Do not submit assignments by or fax. It is the student s responsibility to ensure that the Professor receives papers and it is the student s responsibility to collect the graded paper in a timely fashion. Students should make a copy of all of their assignments before submitting them and are advised to keep all notes and drafts of work until after the final grade has been assigned and awarded. 3

4 ** Late Penalties Assignments are due on the dates specified in the course outline. Late papers will be subject to a penalty of 5% a day not including weekends. Assignments will not be accepted two weeks after the due date. No retroactive extensions will be permitted. Do not ask for an extension on the due date of the assignment. Exceptions will be made only in those cases of special circumstances, (e.g. illness, bereavement) and where the student has verifiable documentation. If you anticipate a problem with one of the above deadlines please approach me as soon as you can in advance of the assignment. Office Hours and Policy will be answered within two business days. Please use only to set up appointments outside of regularly scheduled office hours and/or to pose brief procedural or information related questions. Do not submit any class assignments by . Schedule of Classes September 5 Introduction to Course September 12 Framing Migration and Global Governance Alexander Betts Global Migration Governance. In Global Migration Governance. Editor. Alexander Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp Rey Koslowski Global Mobility Regimes: A Conceptual Framework. In Global Mobility Regimes. Ed. Rey Koslowski. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan pp Ronaldo Munck Globalisation, Governance and Migration: An Introduction. In Third World Quarterly 29:7 (2008) pp Ronen Shamir Without Borders? Notes on Globalization as a Mobility Regime. Sociological Theory. 23:2 pp Sign Up for In Class Presentations September 19 States, Sovereignty and Migration John Agnew The Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory. Review of International Political Economy 1:1 pp Martin Geiger The Transformation of Migration Politics: From Migration Control to Disciplining Mobility. In Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People. Editors Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud. UK: Palgrave pp Virginie Guiraudon and Gallya Lahav A Reappraisal of the State Sovereignty Debate. The Case of Migration Control. In Comparative Political Studies 33:2 pp

5 Saskia Sassen Beyond Sovereignty: DeFacto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy. In Worlds on the Move. Globalization, Migration and Cultural Security. Editors Jonathan Friedman and Shalini Randeria. UK: Palgrave pp September 26 Global Migration Management Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud The Politics of International Migration Management. In The Politics of International Migration Management. Editors Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud. UK: Palgrave. Pp Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin Who s Afraid of International Migration in the United Nations?. In Global Mobility Regimes. Editor Rey Koslowski.UK: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp Helen Schwenken Beautiful victims and sacrificing heroines: Exploring the Role of Gender Knowledge in Migration Policies. In Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33:4 pp Savitri Taylor From Border Control to Migration Management: The Case for a Paradigm Change in the Western Response to Transborder Population Movement. Social Policy and Administration 39:6. pp October 3 Migration, Governance and International Organizations Juan M. Amaya-Castro Migration and the World of Work: Discursive Constructions of the Global in ILO Narratives About Migration. In The New Politics of International Mobility. Migration Management and its Discontents. Editors Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud. IMIS 40 pp Ishan Ashutosh and Alison Mountz Migration Management for the Benefit of Whom? Interrogating the Work of the International Organization for Migration Citizenship Studies 15:1 pp Aexander Betts Regime Complexity and International Organizations: UNHCR as a Challenged Institution. Global Governance 19:1 pp Martin Geiger and Antione Pécoud International Organisations and the Politics of Migration. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40:6 pp October 10 Migration Industry Alexander Betts The Migration Industry in Global Migration Governance. In The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Ninna Nyberg Sørenson. UK: Routledge. Pp H. Richard Friman The Illegal Migration Industry. In Migration in the Global Political Economy. Editor Nicola Phillips. Colorado: Lynn Reinner. Pp G. Menz The Neo-liberalized State and the Growth of the Migration Industry. In The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Ninna Nyberg Sørenson. UK: Routledge. Pp

6 Ninna Nyberg Sørensen Migration Between Social and Criminal Networks. In The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Ninna Nyberg Sørenson. UK: Routledge. Pp October 17 Migration Development Nexus Anna Lindley Remittances. In Global Migration Governance. Editor Alexander Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp Ronald Skeldon Reinterpreting Migration and Development. Migration in the Global Political Economy. Editor Nicola Phillips. Colorado: Lynn Reinner. Pp Ninna Nyberg Sørensen Revisiting the Migration-Development Nexus: From Social Networks and Remittances to Markets for Migration Control. International Migration 50:3 pp Rahel Kunz Remittances are Beautiful? : Gender Implications of the New Global Remittances Trend. In Third World Quarterly 29:7 pp October 24 Travel Regimes and Border Security Jason Ackleson International Cooperation on Border Security in the Developed World: The U.S.-Canada and U.S. EU Cases. In Global Mobility Regimes. Uk: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp Rey Koslowski The International Travel Regime. In Global Mobility Regimes. UK: Palgrave MacMillan pp G. Lahav and Virginie Guiraudon Comparative Perspectives on Border Control: Away from the Border and Outside the State. In The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe. Eds. P Andreas and T. Synder. New York: Routledge. Pp Kamal Sadiq A Global Documentary Regime? Building State Capacity in the Developing World. In Global Mobility Regimes. Editor Rey Koslowski. UK: Palgrave MacMillan pp Fall Reading Break October 27 October 31 November 7 Trafficking and Human Smuggling Rutvica Andrijasevic Beautiful Dead Bodies: Gender, Migration and Representation in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns In Feminist Review 86 pp Jamie Chuang Beyond a Snapshot: Preventing Human Trafficking in the Global Economy. Indiana Journal of Global Studies 13:1 pp Georgios Papanicolaou The Sex Industry, Human Trafficking and the Global Prohibitive Regime: A Cautionary Tale From Greece. Trends in Organized Crime 11:4 pp Susan Martin and Amber Callaway Human Trafficking and Smuggling. In Global Migration Governance. Editor Alexander Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp

7 November 14 Global Governance and Refugees Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles Waiting for What? The Feminization of Asylum in Protracted Situations. Gender, Place and Culture. 18:3 pp Heather Johnson Click to Donate: Visual Images, Constructing Victims and Imagining the Female Refugee. Third World Quarterly 32:6. Gil Loescher and James Milner UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees. In Global Migration Governance. Editor Alexander Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp Randy Lippert Governing Refugees: The Relevance of Governmentality to Understanding the International Refugee Regime. Alternatives 24:3 pp November 21 Labour Migration Clemence Mercay Managing the International Migration of Health Workers: The Development of the WHO Code of Practice. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40:6 pp Jenna Hennebry and Kerry Preibish A Model for Managed Migration? Reexamination of Best Practices in Canada s Seasonal Agricultural Program International Migration February Eleonore Kofman Gendered Labour Migrations in Europe and Emblematic Migratory Figures. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 39:4 pp Ayelet Shachar The Race for Talent: Highly Skilled Migrants and Competitive Immigration Regimes. New York University Law Review 81. Pp November 28 Resistance and Activism Jean Grugel and Nicola Piper Global Governance, Economic Migration and the Difficulties of Social Activism. International Sociology 26:4 pp Stefan Rother A Tale of Two Tactics: Civil Society and Competing Visions of Global Migration Governance from Below. In Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People. Editors Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud. UK: Palgrave pp Kim Rygiel Bordering Solidarities: Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement and Camps at Calais. Citizenship Studies 15:1 pp Saskia Sassen The Participation of States and Citizens in Global Governance. In Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 10:1 pp December 5 Student Conference Final Research Essay Due Academic Accommodations The Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC) provides services to students with Learning Disabilities (LD), psychiatric/mental health disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), chronic 7

8 medical conditions, and impairments in mobility, hearing, and vision. If you have a disability requiring academic accommodations in this course, please contact PMC at or pmc@carleton.ca for a formal evaluation. If you are already registered with the PMC, contact your PMC coordinator to send me your Letter of Accommodation at the beginning of the term, and no later than two weeks before the first in-class scheduled test or exam requiring accommodation (if applicable). After requesting accommodation from PMC, meet with me to ensure accommodation arrangements are made. Please consult the PMC website for the deadline to request accommodations for the formally-scheduled exam (if applicable). For Religious Observance: Students requesting accommodation for religious observances should apply in writing to their instructor for alternate dates and/or means of satisfying academic requirements. Such requests should be made during the first two weeks of class, or as soon as possible after the need for accommodation is known to exist, but no later than two weeks before the compulsory academic event. Accommodation is to be worked out directly and on an individual basis between the student and the instructor(s) involved. Instructors will make accommodations in a way that avoids academic disadvantage to the student. Instructors and students may contact an Equity Services Advisor for assistance ( For Pregnancy: Pregnant students requiring academic accommodations are encouraged to contact an Equity Advisor in Equity Services to complete a letter of accommodation. Then, make an appointment to discuss your needs with the instructor at least two weeks prior to the first academic event in which it is anticipated the accommodation will be required. Plagiarism: The University Senate defines plagiarism as presenting, whether intentional or not, the ideas, expression of ideas or work of others as one s own. This can include: reproducing or paraphrasing portions of someone else s published or unpublished material, regardless of the source, and presenting these as one s own without proper citation or reference to the original source; submitting a take-home examination, essay, laboratory report or other assignment written, in whole or in part, by someone else; using ideas or direct, verbatim quotations, or paraphrased material, concepts, or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment in any academic assignment; using another s data or research findings; failing to acknowledge sources through the use of proper citations when using another s works and/or failing to use quotation marks; handing in "substantially the same piece of work for academic credit more than once without prior written permission of the course instructor in which the submission occurs. Plagiarism is a serious offence which cannot be resolved directly with the course s instructor. The Associate Deans of the Faculty conduct a rigorous investigation, including an interview with the student, when an instructor suspects a piece of work has been plagiarized. Penalties are not trivial. They include a mark of zero for the plagiarized work or a final grade of "F" for the course. 8

9 Oral Examination: At the discretion of the instructor, students may be required to pass a brief oral examination on research papers and essays. Submission and Return of Term Work: Papers must be handed directly to the instructor and will not be date-stamped in the departmental office. Late assignments may be submitted to the drop box in the corridor outside B640 Loeb. Assignments will be retrieved every business day at 4 p.m., stamped with that day's date, and then distributed to the instructor. For essays not returned in class please attach a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you wish to have your assignment returned by mail. Please note that assignments sent via fax or will not be accepted. Final exams are intended solely for the purpose of evaluation and will not be returned. Grading: Assignments and exams will be graded with a percentage grade. To convert this to a letter grade or to the university 12-point system, please refer to the following table. Percentage Letter grade 12-point scale Percentage Letter grade 12-point scale A C A C A C B D B D B D- 1 Grades: Final grades are derived from the completion of course assignments. Failure to write the final exam will result in the grade ABS. Deferred final exams are available ONLY if the student is in good standing in the course. Approval of final grades: Standing in a course is determined by the course instructor subject to the approval of the Faculty Dean. This means that grades submitted by an instructor may be subject to revision. No grades are final until they have been approved by the Dean. Carleton Accounts: All communication to students from the Department of Political Science will be via official Carleton university accounts and/or culearn. As important course and University information is distributed this way, it is the student s responsibility to monitor their Carleton and culearn accounts. Carleton Political Science Society: The Carleton Political Science Society (CPSS) has made its mission to provide a social environment for politically inclined students and faculty. Holding social events, debates, and panel discussions, CPSS aims to involve all political science students at Carleton University. Our mandate is to arrange social and academic activities in order to instill a sense of belonging within the Department and the larger University community. Members can benefit through numerous opportunities which will complement both academic and social life at Carleton University. To find out more, visit or come to our office in Loeb D688. Official Course Outline: The course outline posted to the Political Science website is the official course outline. 9

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