Migration & History Nordic and Global perspectives Miika Tervonen & Saara Pellander
Group discussion : ’ migrant tales ’ • What kinds of migration (hi)stories do you have in your family? Discuss! • NB: can be close or distant family (or your friends); distant past or last week; and include yourself!
… from private to public tales: mobility as a problem (for some) (NYT 16 Jan 2017)
Migration as the issue of 2010s • Key locus in ongoing political realignments • Mainstreaming of anti-immigrant populism • Q: how did mobility become so hyperpoliticized? Longue durée question, obscured by an ’ eternal present ’ in public discourses
”White guard refugees burden the Finnish taxpayers” ”A flood of refugees from Bulgaria. Already almost 600 asylum seekers from Bulgarian have arrived to Finland this year .” Valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta / 17.1.2017 6 Miika Tervonen
”White guard refugees burden the Finnish taxpayers” ( Wiipurin Sanomat 1922) ”A flood of refugees from Bulgaria. Already almost 600 asylum seekers from Bulgarian have arrived to Finland this year.” ( Iltalehti 2009) Valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta / 17.1.2017 7 Miika Tervonen
What the course is about (# 1) • Addressing ” migration ” as a historically constructed societal phenomenon o Human societies always fundamentally mobile o Yet, new kinds of global mass mobilities & migration control 19th C o Connected ruptures: industrial capitalism, nation-states, colonialism o Post-colonial legacies (Saara 14 Feb)
What the course is about (# 2) • Addressing blind spots & silences o Argument: understanding of migration tilted by ’ collective amnesia’ ( Noiriel 1988) and methodological nationalism (Wimmer & Schiller 2002) o ” Thinking like a state ” (Scott 1998) past migrants omitted OR seen as marginal/ exceptional/ anomalous OR put in national ’ boxes ’ o Tilts also understanding of ’us’ & our society o E.g. Nordic case: persistent racialised ideas of static, homogeneous & colour blind pasts o multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009), migrant memories part of national politics of remembering?
What the course is not about: • ’ Migration history ’ – too much to take on! All human history can be seen through mobility (1st ’ Globalisation ’ 50000 -12000 BC) • Arguing that ’ history ’ is a superior discipline • Arguing that ’ history ’ is a superior perspective o Instead, the argument: critical long-term perspective on migration helps to address blind spots and avoid ” thinking like a state ” (Scott 1998)
Schedule • 17.1 Intro, discussion, practicalities • 24.1 Why past matters (globalizations & amnesias) • 31.1 Migration control • 7.2 The Nordic melting pot? • 14.2 Post-colonial perspectives (Saara) • 21.2 Migration and memory (Saara) • 28.2 From debordering to rebordering (+feedback) • 7.3 Essay deadline
COMPLETION : • Active participation + article presentation + 2000- 2500 word essay EVALUATION: • 30% classroom activity, 30% article presentation, 40% essay
Article presentations guideline • 10- max- 15 min presentations on assigned reading • Mostly in groups of 2 • The presenters also lead the 15-20min discussion • Please help us have a good debate by: – Keeping it simple: what are the main arguments? – Using powerpoint (if you like) - but with moderation! – Giving us your own perspective: what did you find interesting/surprising/problematic/unclear /…? – On that basis, introduce 2-3 questions / talking points! • Everyone else: read, prepare at least 1 comment, take part! This is what we are here for!
Presentation schedule # 1 : 24.1 L.Lucassen (2005) Introduction. The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 . Presenters: Justine, Manon P.Marfleet (2006) ”Refugees and history: why we must address the past”. Refugee Survey Quarterly 26 (3). Presenters: Iida 31.1 J.Thorpey (1998) Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate Means of Movement. Sociological Theory 16:3. Presenters: Leena, Mika Book reviews of A.McKeown, Melancholy order. Asian migration and the globalization of borders (2011); D.Fitzgerald & D.Cook-Martín, Culling the masses: the democratic origins of racist immigration policy in the Americas (2014) . Presenters: Tanja 7.2 G.Brochmann & A.Hagelund (2011) Migrants in the Scandinavian Welfare state. The emergence of a social policy problem. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. Volume 1, Issue 1. Presenters: Julia M.Tervonen (2015) The Nordic passport union and its discontents. Unintended consequences of free movement. J.Strang (ed.), Nordic cooperation. A European region in Transition. Presenters: Aliisa & Aino
Presentation schedule # 2 14.2 T.Hübinette (2012) ‘ Words that Wound ’: Swedish Whiteness and its Inability to Accommodate Minority Experience. Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities , K.Loftsdottir & L.Jensen (eds.). Presenters: Julia & Iiris B.Manuela. (2013) Connecting some Dots. Migration, Colonialism, and Questions of Citizenship in Postcolonial Europe’ in: E.Bischoff and E.Engle (eds.): Colonialism and Beyond. Race and Migration from a Postcolonial Perspective. Presenters: Kristiina, Emma 21.2 M.Rothberg. and Y.Yildiz (2011) “Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” Parallax 17, no. 4. Presenters: Dam T.Lacroix & E.Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (2013): “ Refugee and Diaspora Memories: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting ”. Journal of Intercultural Studies 34 (6). Presenters: Anastasia, Bianca 28.2 Article 1 (TBA! Theme: from debordering to rebordering) Presenters: Article 2 (TBA! Theme: from debordering to rebordering) Presenters:
Essay guidelines • 2000-2500 words, topic free as long as connected to the course themes • If you are working on a related BA/MA/PhD thesis, by all means write on that (yet has to be an essay in its own right) • Refer to at least 2 texts in the course reader • For detailed instructions see the course website. • Main thing in a good essay: clear perspective & red thread beginning from the title • Deadline 7 March
Other practicalities • There will also be 2 small questionnaires during the course (on essay topic + feedback) • For course information, updates and articles see the course website • Max 2 absences. 2nd has to be compensated with an article review (see the course reader) • 3 absences fail • Lectures begin 10.15 – please be on time
Questions? miika.tervonen@helsinki.fi tel.0503727800 U35 room 207 saara.pellander@helsinki.fi Course website: https://courses.helsinki.fi/fi/753508/113529705
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