Universidade Católica Portuguesa / Instituto de Estudos Políticos
Seminar “Migration, Integration, and Modern Theories of Citizenship”
Spring 2008
Instructor:
Prof. Horst Mewes
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
horstmewes [at] yahoo.com
Overview of the goals of the course:
Human migrations are among the most revolutionary experiences of humankind, and its importance is growing in the present age of globalization boosting its impact on the evolution of political communities. Due to the fact that migrations are a permanent phenomenon and that studies point to the continuation of mass migrations this is and will continue to be a highly important issue for political theory.
This course aims at providing an understanding of the challenges brought to citizenship theory by migrations and migrant integration.
Course Topics:
Citizenship, Membership, Community, Nationalism, Nation-States, Welfare States, Belonging, Immigration, Migrant Integration.
Requirements and grading:
o class attendance
o participation based on the required readings
o paper (approx. 3.000 words)
o exam (90-minute closed book exam)
Course outline and required readings:
Section 1 – General introduction: problems of citizenship and communal inclusion today
Readings:
- Habermas, J., C. Cronin, et al. (1998). The inclusion of the other : studies in political theory. Cambridge, Mass., MIT PRess.
o Chapter 4 – The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship
o Chapter 5 – On the Relation between the Nation, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
- Constant, B. and B. Fontana (1988). The political writings of Benjamin Constant. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, Cambridge University Press.
- Kymlicka, W. (1995). Multicultural citizenship : a liberal theory of minority rights. Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press ;Oxford University Press.
o Chapter 1 – Introduction
o Chapter 2 – The Politics of Multuculturalism
Section 2 – Innovations and problems of European citizenship (part I)
Readings:
- Carens, J. H. (1996). "Realistic and Idealistic Approaches to the Ethics of Migration." International Migration Review 30(1): 156-170.
- Maas, W. (2006). "Challenges of European Citizenship." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association - 2006, 28
Section 3 – Innovations and problems of European citizenship (part II)
Readings:
- Favell, A. (2003). "Integration Nations: The Nation-State and Research on Immigrants in Western Europe." Comparative Social Research 22: 13-42
- Favell, A. (2002). "Markets against politics: migration, EU enlargement and the idea of Europe." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28(4): 581-601
Section 4 – Citizenship and new concepts of community
Readings:
- Walzer, M. (1983). Spheres of justice : a defense of pluralism and equality. New York, Basic Books.
o chapter 2
- Pickus, N. M. J. (2005). True faith and allegiance : immigration and American civic nationalism. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
o Introduction
o Epilogue
Section 5 – Globalization and the politics of belonging
Readings:
- Castles, S. and A. Davidson (2000). Citizenship and migration : globalization and the politics of belonging. New York, Routledge.
- Thaa, W. (2001). "Lean Citizenship: The Fading Away of the Political in Transnational Democracy." European Journal of International Relations 7(4): 503–23.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ON THIS SUBJECT:
Aleinikoff, T. A. and D. B. Klusmeyer (2000). From migrants to citizens : membership in a changing world. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Anderson, B. R. O. G. (1991). Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London ; New York, Verso.
Bauböck, R. (2006). Migration and citizenship : legal status, rights and political participation. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
Carens, J. H. (2000). Culture, citizenship, and community : a contextual exploration of justice as evenhandedness. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press.
Cole, P. (2000). Philosophies of exclusion : liberal political theory and immigration. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Espada, J. C. (1996). Social citizenship rights : a critique of F.A. Hayek and Raymond Plant. New York, N.Y., St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Favell, A. (1998). "A Politics That Is Shared, Bounded, and Rooted? Rediscovering Civic Political Culture in Western Europe." Theory and Society 27(2): 209-236.
Heater, D. B. (1999). What is citizenship? Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers.
Hoffman, J. (2004). Citizenship beyond the state. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., SAGE.
Hollifield, J. F. (1992). Immigrants, markets, and states : the political economy of postwar Europe. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
Juss, S. S. (2006). International migration and global justice. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
Kerber, L. K. (1997). "The Meanings of Citizenship." The Journal of American History 84(3): 833-854.
Meilaender, P. C. (1999). "Liberalism and Open Borders: The Argument of Joseph Carens." International Migration Review 33(4): 1062-1081.
Nussbaum, M. C. and J. Cohen (2002). For love of country? Boston, Beacon Press.
Pickus, N. M. J. (1998). Immigration and citizenship in the twenty-first century. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield.
Schierup, C.-U., P. Hansen, et al. (2006). Migration, citizenship, and the European welfare state : a European dilemma. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Schuck, P. H. (2000). "Citizenship in Federal Systems." The American Journal of Comparative Law 48(2): 195-226.
Smith, R. M. (1997). Civic ideals : conflicting visions of citizenship in U.S. history. New Haven [Conn.], Yale University Press.
Soysal, Y. N. g. (1994). Limits of citizenship : migrants and postnational membership in Europe. Chicago, University of Chicago.
Walzer, M. (2004). Politics and passion : toward a more egalitarian liberalism. New Haven, Yale University.