Familie, Globalisierung und der Staat
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike DrotbohmShortname: Familie
Course No.: 07.798.19_720
Course Type: Hauptseminar
Format: online
Recommended reading list
Baldassar, Loretta and Laura Merla (eds.) 2014: Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life. London, NY: Routledge.Browner, Carole and Carolyn Sargent (eds.) 2011: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State. New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Durham, London: Duke UP.
Cole, Jennifer and Christian Groes (eds.) 2016: Affective Circuits. African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration. Chicago: Chicago UP.
Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp (eds.) 1991: Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kofman, Eleonore and Parvati Raghuaram (eds.) 2014: Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Contents
Families today live more and more transnationally, spread over several countries. At the same time, societies are becoming increasingly diversified and negotiate their expectations towards “a good family life” based on differently defined positions of power. In this constellation, the state assumes an important position through the legalization of social practices in order to regulate, protect or control the duties and rights related to parenting, gender roles, intergenerational relationships, reproduction or sexuality.In this seminar we use ethnographies from different regions of the world to address topics such as the norms and practices of family reunification, the interventions of state actors in migrant families, the consequences of deportations for family relationships - both in the countries of destination and in the countries of origin, the control and globalization of reproductive technologies, care chains that connect families in the Global South with those living in the Global North, the duties and obligations of different genders and generations as well as the sexual or reproductive rights of refugees.
The seminar derives its theoretical impetus from the anthropology of kinship and migration, locates this in global contexts and also touches the area of political and legal anthropology.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 04/15/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 04/22/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 04/29/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 05/06/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 05/20/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 05/27/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 06/10/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 06/17/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 06/24/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 07/01/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 07/08/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | |
| 07/15/2021 (Thursday) | 10:15 - 11:45 |