Date and time: Wednesday 7 September 2022; 13:15-15:00 (UTC+2)

Teacher: Lisa Åkesson

Location: Room 204 (Annedalseminariet)

Slides Labour migration Theories and Perspectives 2022.pptx

As an introduction to this lecture, I will bring up some general facts about migration flows in our times, as many people tend to have a quite skewed picture of the size and directions of these. Thereafter we will discuss the reasons why people migrate, using Castles, Stephan (2010) Understanding global migration: A social transformation perspective. After that, we move on to anthropological contributions to migration studies, and bring up how anthropologists attention to “things on the ground” may reveal new important trends, exemplified mainly by the transnational perspective, but also by my own research on North-South migration. Lastly, we will touch upon some new theoretical trends in anthropological migration research that criticize the nation-state- and ethnicity-centred epistemology that often informs migration studies, exemplified by Dahinden’s article “A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration”.

Required reading:
Group A	Castles, Stephen (2010) "Understanding global migration: A social transformation perspective." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(10): 1565-1586.
Group B	Åkesson, Lisa (2016) “Moving beyond the Colonial? New Portuguese Migrants in Angola”. Cahiers d’Études Africains LVI (1-2):267-285.
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Suggested additional reading

Janine Dahinden (2016) A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:13, 2207-2225. (Links to an external site.)