GENDER, FAMILY AND MIGRATION

The course aims to provide the analytical tools to read, from a critical perspective, international migrations through a gender and intersectional lens, highlighting the processes of engendering migration and familiarization of migrations.

The course contributes to an advanced understanding and to the development of analytical and critical skills of social phenomena such as the intertwining of migrations, inequalities between nations and continents, social classes and genders, migration and social policies.

The theoretical and analytical tools provided in the course, which draw on social sciences and, in particular, sociology and social anthropology, are useful for addressing the topics covered by the course and can be further applied to the study of social transformations.

At the end of the course the students:
- possess an overview of the familiarization phenomena of immigration in Europe and Italy, of the social, political and cultural processes related to it;
- deepen its conceptual tools for the study of international migration and the processes of engendering migration, as well as elaborated by the most advanced and recent studies;
- know the specific terminology, the main research themes and problems of the field of study relating to immigrant families, in migration, through migration, social construction and gender transformations in migration.
- are able to work with the concepts and paradigms necessary for the understanding of past and present transformations related to international migration;
- are familiar with the different configurations of family and gender migration in Italy, Europe and the world
- are aware of the role of (social, employment and migration) policies in defining immigrant individuals, families and populations within the international division of labor;
- know how to deconstruct social representations and stereotypes relating to the status of individuals, families and immigrant populations
- know how to critically analyze theories and policy discourses that stereotype and explain inequalities as based on racial, national, cultural and religious factors;
- are able to present orally and discuss the main theoretical and empirical problems related to the processes of familiarization of migration, gender differences and inequalities;
- know how to analyze in written form a specific problem related to gender and migration based on the main theoretical approaches and empirical results of the research;
- know how to formulate the contents of the course in a clear and reasoned way, know how to correctly use current terminology in the field of migration and intercultural relations, know how to build examples to support or refute a hypothesis of analysis;
- they are able to collect information, provide analyzes and interpretations by applying the acquired knowledge, providing relevant examples, also independently built.

There are no prerequisites required.

The course presents, compares and critically discusses theories and concepts used to analyze the processes of migration familiarization, engendering migration and the impact that policies have on immigrant families, women and men, on their social, economic and political position in countries. of origin and in the countries of immigration, as well as the consequences they have on societies as a whole.

The course begins with a brief historical reconstruction of female migration that puts the current debate on the feminization of migration in perspective.
He then critically discusses the theory of care chains, family reunification, gender transformations in migration. Finally, the course addresses the impact of the different forms and contexts of migration on the relationships and inequalities of race, nationality, gender, class and generation.

1. A book to be chosen from:
-Della Puppa, F. 2014. "Uomini in movimento. Il lavoro della maschilità fra Bangladesh e Italia". Turin: Rosenberg&Sellier.
-Donaldson, M. et al. 2009. "Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience". London: Routledge.

2. A book to be chosen from:
-Tognetti Bordogna, M. et al. 2011. "Famiglie ricongiunte. Esperienze di ricongiungimento di famiglie del Marocco, Pakistan, India". Torino: Utet.
-Bonizzoni P. 2009. "Famiglie globali. Le frontiere della maternità". Turin: Utet.
-Ambrosini, M. et al. 2010. "Ritrovarsi altrove. Famiglie ricongiunte e adolescenti d’origine immigrata". Milano: Fondazione Ismu.
-Ambrosini, M. 2019. "Famiglie nonostante. Come gli affetti sfidano i confini". Bologna: Il Mulino.
-Baldassar, L., Merla, L. 2013. "Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care ". London: Routledge.
-Baldassar, L. et al. 2007. "Families Caring Across Borders. Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving". London: Routledge.

3. A book to be chosen from:
-Vianello, F.A. 2015. "Genere e migrazioni: prospettive di studio e di ricerca". Milan: Guerini.
-Decimo, F. 2005. "Quando emigrano le donne. Percorsi e reti femminili della mobilità transnazionale". Bologna: Il Mulino.
-Cvejner, M. 2018. "Sociologia delle migrazioni femminili. L'esperienza delle donne post-sovietiche". Bologna: Il Mulino.
-Ehrenreich, B., Hochschild, A.R. 2004. "Global Women. Nannies, Maiods, Sex Workers in the New Economy". New York: Henry Holt and Company.
-Ambrosini, M. 2013. "Immigrazione irregolare e welfare invisibile. Il lavoro di cura attraverso le frontiere". Bologna: Il Mulino.
-Andall, J. 2000. "Gender, Migration and Domestic Service: The Politics of Black Women in Italy". Aldershot: Ashgate.
-Anthias, F., Lazaridis, G. 2000. "Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move". London: Springer.
-Campani, G. 2000. "Genere, etnia e classe". Florence: ETS.
-Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. 2003. "Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends". Berkeley: University of Ca. Press.
-Kofman, E., Raghuram, P. 2015. "Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction". London: Palgrave.

4. A book to be chosen from:
-Zeitlyn, B. 2015. "Transnational Childhoods: British Bangladeshis, Identities and Social Change". London: Palgrave.
-Parreñas, R.S. 2005. "Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes". Stanford: Stanford University Press.
-Colombo, E. 2010. "Figli di migranti in Italia. Identificazioni, relazioni". Turin: Utet.

5. Della Puppa, F. et al. 2021. "La linea dell'orizzonte". Padua: Becco Giallo.

IMPORTANT: The professor is available to negotiate any other readings proposed by the student or orient him/her on the basis of his/her interests.

ALL STUDENTS must draw up and present to the class an essay on the topics of the course (the professor will support the students in drafting the essay) OR a paper on a novel, related to the topics of the course (for example, see the section below).
IN ADDITION, they will have to carry out an exercise and participate in the discussion on the basis of the films seen in class.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS must draw up an essay as explained above, and add the following bibliography:
1. A book to be chosen from (Italian or English editions accepted):
-Sayad, A. 1999. "La double absence. Des illusions aux souffrances de l’immigré". Paris: Seuil.
-Sayad, A. 2006. "L’immigration ou les paradoxes de l’alteritè". Paris: Editions Raison d’agir.

2. Two books of your choice (instead of one) of your choice in block 2.

3. Two books of your choice (instead of one) of your choice in block 3.

Verification of learning will be carried out on the basis of:
- active participation in classroom work and thematic seminars (and classroom active discussion after the vision of films and/or documentaries);
- individual and group presentations and discussions;
- presentation of an essay on the topics of the course (the professor is available to follow the student in drafting the essay); OR a paper of sociological analysis of a novel, relating to the topics of the course (some example of novels: Ali, M. "Brick Lane"; Kureishi, H. "The Buddha of Suburbia"; Smith, Z . "White teeth"; Adichie, CN "Americanah"; Varesi, V. "Il paese di Saimir"; Geda, F. "Nel mare ci sono coccodrilli"; Nezami, ML "Inospitale terra promessa" ... the professor is willing to accept / negotiate any other titles of novels);
- participation in discussions on the films seen in class and drafting of related exercises.


- oral exam.

The assessment of the written and oral tests focuses on:
- clarity, relevance, validity of the analysis and proposals;
- ability to rework in the analysis and design of the concepts and theories discussed in the course;
- argumentative ability;
- clarity of presentation and adequacy of language;
- Quality of reflection on the limits and problems of the policies analyzed and of the proposed interventions.

Cassroom lessons, collaborative work, seminars, supervision of term papers, critical-analytical vision of films and/or documentaries.

Students who have issues of accessibility or special learning are strongly encouraged to contact the professors (and the office disabilita@unive.it) at the beginning of the course.

English

For any clarification, do not hesitate to contact the professor: francesco.dellapuppa@unive.it

Ca ’Foscari applies Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for the support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities and special needs or specific learning disabilities and special needs. If you have a mobility, visual, hearing or other disability and special needs (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder or special needs (Law 170/2010) and you require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out exams or exams individualized, accessible format material, note retrieval, specialist tutoring to support the study, interpreters or other) contact the Disability and DSA office disabilita@unive.it.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development