COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobility and Borders in Europe | PSIR 464 | Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 6 |
| Academic Unit: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | Over the past four decades, the expansion of flows of people, capital and goods have been met by a proliferation of borders. The level of displaced populations across the world has reached its record since WWII. For millions of displaced people, escaping from persecution, violence and human rights violations, simultaneously means beginning of another deadly journey at the borders. Drastically increased number of deaths, images of hundreds in shipwrecks, thousands climbing over barbed-wire fences, thousands more contained in refugee camps, have been filling the pages of reports and newspapers. This course is designed with the aim of understanding the governance of borders and human mobility – that is, ways in which lines, boundaries, filters are drawn between geographical entities, populations, identities and ultimately, people – establishing hierarchical and moral categories, authorizing certain modes of actions and violence. Drawing on insights from diverse range of scholarship across the social sciences, this highly interdisciplinary course design will address the general themes such as state, sovereignty, territory, nation, citizenship, environmental crises etc. through reviewing a range of contemporary issues in the 21st century – such as migration, everyday experiences of security, borders and bordering practices, and surveillance. The major objective of the course is to introduce the scholarship on mobility, security and borders that has been growing tremendously in the last decade. Nourished with a range of disciplines, from critical international relations to political science, sociology and technology studies, the scholarship provides analytical tools to grasp key themes and theories in their connection to the human mobility and borders, particularly in the case of Europe. |
| Course Contents: | The course will contain reading and visual materials each week in relation to the topics of migration, mobility, surveillance, and borders in the European geographies. With the aim of facilitating creativity, critical perspective and analytical reasoning, the course is designed in the way in which each topic in every week is enriched with a related visual material. The course requirements are also designated with the aim of facilitating active learning and participation, close engagement with the field and capacity to combine theory and practice. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | The course will be composed of lectures and writing & interactive discussion sessions. |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and syllabus review | |
| 2 | Setting the Scene: “Crisis” | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 3 | A World of Walls, Age of Displacement: Who can move? | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 4 | Spatial Order of the Earth: Settler Colonialism and Slave Trade | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 5 | Post-1945 World Order and International Protection | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 6 | EUrope: From Schengenland to Arab Spring | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 7 | Spring Break – No Class | |
| 8 | European Borders by/as Design: Walls, Fences, Checkpoints | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 9 | European Borders by/as Design: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 10 | Ocean/Sea: The Practice of Rescue | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 11 | Containment, Camps and Deportation | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 12 | Categorized Humanity: European Visa Policy | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 13 | Surveillance: Biometrics, Algorithm and Big Data | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
| 14 | Mobility, Solidarity and Resistance | Reading/watching the assigned materials; preparing for discussion and in-class writing |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| John, A. (1994). The territorial trap: The Geographical assumptions of international relations theory. Review of International Political Economy 1(1):53-80. Torpey, J. (2000). The Invention of Passport. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vaughan-Williams, N. (2015). Europe's Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond, Oxford: OUP. Chapter 1&2, pp. 1-45. Johnson, C., Jones, R., Paasi, A., Amoore, L., Mountz, A., Salter, M., & Rumford, C. (2011). Interventions on rethinking ‘the border’ in border studies. Political Geography, 30(2), 61–69. Bialasiewicz, L. (2012). Off-shoring and out-sourcing the borders of Europe: Libya and EU border work in the Mediterranean. Geopolitics, 17(4):843-866. Casas-Cortes, M., Cobarrubias, S., & Pickles, J. (2016). ‘Good neighbours make good fences’: Seahorse operations, border externality and extra-territoriality. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23(3), 231-251. Karadağ, S. (2019). Extraterritoriality of European Borders to Turkey: an implementation perspective of counteractive strategies. Comparative Migration Studies, 7(12). Heller, C. & Pezzani, L. (2017). Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier. In N. De Genova, The Borders of Europe, Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Duke University Press. Tazzioli M and Garelli G (2018) Containment beyond detention: The hotspot system and disrupted migration movements across Europe. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Broeders D, 2007, “The new digital borders of Europe: EU databases and the surveillance of irregular migrants” International Sociology, 22 71-92. Pötzsch, H. (2015). The Emergence of iBorder: Bordering Bodies, Networks, and Machines. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(1), 101–118. Stierl, M., Rygiel, K., and Ataç, I.(2016). ‘The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins’, Citizenship Studies, 20:5, 527-544. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| Forensic Architecture | Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Situated Testimony https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/evros-situated-testimony New World Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/britains-involvement-with-new-world-slavery-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | - | 15 |
| Practice / Exercise | 6 | 30 |
| Project | 1 | 40 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 |
| Total: | 8 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Practice / Exercise | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| Project | 1 | 45 | 45 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 13 | 3 | 39 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 150 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 |
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High