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Lecturer(s)
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Mildnerová Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Subject areas: 1. Migration and mobility - typology, terminology 2. Migration in the pre-colonial period - trans-Saharan and transatlantic trade 3. Migration and mobility in the colonial period I - rural-urban migration (as a result of the introduction of forced labor), seasonal migration. 4. Migration and mobility in the colonial period II - issues of internal displacement, sedentarization of nomads, formation of fixed tribal identities, bantustans in South Africa) 5. History and present of the African diaspora in America and the Caribbean 6. Migration and mobility in the postcolonial context - basic approaches and topics 7. Migration, mobility and globalization in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1960s 8. Internal migration in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of ethnic, political, economic and religious conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. (conflict in Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, DRC) 9. Migration routes of Africans to Europe as a result of ethnic, political and religious conflicts of the second half of the 20th century 10. Economic migration of Africans to Europe in the second half of the 20th century (France, Germany, Portugal) and the failure of the integration policy of European states. 11. Current immigration of Africans to Europe - causes, consequences, solutions at the level of nation states and the European Union (Eritrea, Nigeria, Libya) 12. Africans in the Czech Republic (from the 1980s to the present) Study literature Mandatory Literature: Bruijn, M.E. de; Dijk, R. A. van and Foeken, D. W. J. (eds.) 2001. Mobile Africa: changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond. Leiden: Brill. Castles, S., and M.J. Miller 2009. The Age of Migration: International population movements in the modern world. Fourth revised and updated edition. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Tienda, M., Findley, S. Tollman, S. and E. Preston-Whyte (eds.) 2006. Africa on the Move: African migration and urbanization in comparative perspective. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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The course deals with migration in the context of colonial and post-colonial African history with an emphasis on contemporary developments. The course will focus on the modern history of three types of migration: 1) internal migration of the population within the African continent (domestic and international), 2) emigration towards Europe and America, 3) immigration towards Africa. We will be interested in the way these types of migration overlap and overlap (e.g. the shift from migration to commercial or transnational mobility), what are the underlying motivations, ideologies, stereotypes, collective strategies and individual trajectories. Mobility, as well as migration, will be viewed in the broader context of social, political and economic processes (seasonal, rural-urban migration, migration for education, marriage or employment, business mobility), as well as changes and development of urban space. A special lecture will be devoted to the narrative perspective of "stationary" rooted societies, groups and individuals who, for various reasons, cannot leave the place in which they live and who are affected by the ethos of globalization and unrestricted mobility indirectly. Students will also have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the issue of current migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, its main causes and consequences in the context of the migration (asylum and integration) policy of individual European states, including the Czech Republic.
acquiring knowledge from the field of migration in the context of colonial and post-colonial history of Africa in the wider context of social, political and economic processes.
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Prerequisites
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attendance at lectures 75%
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
1) attendance at lectures 75% 2) written text
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Recommended literature
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