Department of Social and Welfare Studies
Syllabus - Graduate Course
International Migration, Ethnicity and Gender: Intersectional
Perspectives on Labour, Power, and Citizenship (7,5 ECTS)
Course Calendar
The course is scheduled for: 2 April – 6 May, 2012
The lectures and seminars in Norrköping are scheduled for: 16–20 April, 2012
Course Directors
Dr. Anna Bredström and Prof. Diana Mulinari
Course Objectives
The course aims to engage students in exploring a range of scholarly debates on
international migration, ethnicity and gender. It surveys new trends in European migration in
relation to global gender transformations and the labour market. It will inform students
about different dimensions of intersectional analysis and its relevance for migration studies.
It trains students’ ability to analyse interconnections of class, “race”/ethnicity, gender and
sexuality applied to case studies of domestic work, care work, sex work and service work
among others. It also trains students to explore migrant’s situation in the context of a radical
transformation of European nation states and their different migration regimes. Course
participants will also engage with important questions pertaining to citizenship and social
exclusion/inclusion in different parts of Europe as well as to the emerging forms of
resistance and activism.
Course Content
The course highlights the importance of an intersectional analysis in the field of migration
studies focusing on how articulations of class, ethnicity, gender/sexuality and generation
shape the experiences of different groups of migrant women and men in different socio-
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political contexts. Questions concerning international migration, citizenship rights, gender
relations and the global economy are at the centre of the course. Theories and concepts of
migration, ethnicity, racism and multiculturalism will be critically re-read from an
intersectional perspective.
Below, each part of the course is outlined and described in more detail. The course is
organized in forms of lectures and seminars with plenty of room for discussion. The students
will also have the opportunity to present and discuss their own work in workshops chaired
by the course directors.
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Monday, 16 April
Course Introduction: Feminist Migration Studies
9.30–12.00, Room B43
Lecturers:
Anna Bredström, REMESO
Diana Mulinari, Lund University
This lecture introduces the field of international migration and gender focusing in particular
on the contributions of feminist scholars. Gender discourses and gendered social relations
affect who migrates and why, and how the decision is made. It also impacts on migrants’
every day lives in both sending and receiving countries. Feminist scholars have explored
previous neglected areas within the field of migration studies identifying “gendered
geographies of power” regulating global migrations flows. They have also analysed the role
of the state, as well as the role of social imaginaries (nations, communities etc.) in gendered
transnational processes and experiences. This lecture provides an overview of this
scholarship and the contemporary debate on intersectional analyses of migration and ethnic
relations, and introduces the themes that will be studied in more depth during the coming
week.
Readings:
Anthias, Floya and Cederberg, Maja (2006) State of the Art: Theoretical Perspectives and Debates in
the UK, FeMiPol, http://www.femipol.unifrankfurt.de/docs/working_papers/state_of_the_art/UK
Donato, Katharine M., et al. (2006), “A Glass Half Full? Gender in Migration Studies”, International
Migration Review, 40 (1): 3-26.
Manalansan, Martin F. (2006), “Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender in Migration Studies”,
International Migration Review, 40 (1): 224-49.
Silvey, Rachel (2004) “Power, difference and mobility: feminist advances in migration studies”,
Progress In Human Geography, 28 (4): 490-506.
Lutz, Helma, Herrera Vivar, Maria Teresa and Supik, Linda (ed.) (2011) Framing intersectionality:
debates on a multi-faceted concept in gender studies. Farnham: Ashgate. Chapter 1,
Introduction, pp. 1-24.
Recommended additional reading:
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Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997) Gender & nation, London: Sage
Text Seminar: The concept of Intersectionality
Group 1: 13.15-15.00, Room B323
Group 2: 13.15-15.00, Room B326
Group 3: 15.15-17.00, Room B323
Group 4: 15.15-17.00, Room B326
This seminar discusses the concept of intersectionality and its relevance for studies on
international migration. The concept of intesectionality is often referred to as “cutting edge”
within the field of gender studies, and many scholars argue that the shift from gender to
intersectional analysis in feminist thinking has been one of the most important
developments within the field. The session will explore the strength and the limits of the
concept itself, and introduce some of the central feminist contributions that examine the
relationship between gender regimes and other systems of oppression /subordination. It will
in particular attend to the theoretical debate and discuss how different academic
approaches affect different understandings of ethnic, gender and class relations within the
field of international migration.
Readings:
Gimenez, Marta (2001) “Marxism and Class, Gender and Race:
Rethinking the Trilogy”, Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 8, No. 2: 23–33, available at:
http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/cgr.html
Rottmann, Susan B. and Myra Marx Ferree (2008) “Citizenship and Intersectionality: German
Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws”, Social Politics: International
Studies in Gender, State and Society, Vol. 15, No. 4: 481–513.
Collins, Patricia Hill (1998) “It’s all in the family: Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation”, Hypatia,
Vol. 13, No. 3: 62–82.
McCall, Leslie (2005) “The Complexity of Intersectionality”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society, Vol. 30 (3): 1771–1800.
Recommended additional reading:
Lutz, Helma, Herrera Vivar, Maria Teresa and Supik, Linda (ed.) (2011) Framing intersectionality:
debates on a multi-faceted concept in gender studies. Farnham: Ashgate.
Workshop
Group 1: 15.15-17.00, Room B455 (Chair Anna)
Group 2: 15.15-17.00, Room B424 (Chair Diana)
Group 3: 13.15-15.00, Room B455 (Chair Anna)
Group 4: 13.15-15.00, Room B424 (Chair Diana)
See separate instructions
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Tuesday 17 April
Seminar: The concept of Intersectionality (cont.)
9.00–10.00, Room B 43
Lecture: Gender, race and social policy
10.15–12.00, Room B 43
13.15–15.00, Room B43 (Seminar)
Lecturer: Gail Lewis, Open University, UK
What is the relationship between discourses of difference regulating domination and
subordination and practices of citizenship, social welfare and organisational cultures? How
do processes of racialization embedded in colonial thought create and reproduce
representations of migrants’ cultures as well as narrow conceptions of multiculturalism?
In this lecture, British and EU policy formation will be explored taking these research
questions as forms of departure. Linking social policies and practices of welfare
organizations with post-imperial modes of governance, the lecture demonstrates how the
conjunction of social policy and welfare state practice are constitutive of racialised and
gendered subjects, as well as a hierarchical order of citizenship.
Readings:
Gunaratnam, Y and Gail Lewis (2001) ”Racialising emotional labour and emotionalising racialised
labour: anger, fear and shame in social welfare”, Journal Of Social Work Practice, 15(2): 131148.
Lewis, Gail (2000) 'Race', Gender, Social Welfare: Encounters in a postcolonial society, Cambridge,
Polity Press.
Lewis, Gail (2005) “Welcome to the margins: Diversity, tolerance, and policies of exclusion”, Ethnic
and Racial Studies, 28(3): 536-558.
Mulinari Diana (2007) ”Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden”, in Melby, Kari
Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.) Gender equality and welfare
politics in Scandinavia: the limits of political ambition?, Bristol: Policy, pp. 167–182.
Additional readings may be announced later.
Workshop
15.15-17.00,
Group 1, Room B326 (Chair Anna)
Group 2, Room B455 (Chair Diana)
See separate instructions
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Wednesday 18 April
REMESO Seminar (Open Lecture)
10.15-12.00, Room B43
Gail Lewis, Open University, UK
Readings may be announced later.
Seminar: Gender, Ethnicity, Power and Agency
13.15–15.00, Room B43
Aleksandra Ålund, REMESO
This seminar focuses on power and agency with a special focus on activism for social
inclusion among migrants and ethnic minorities in Sweden. Examples from immigrant
associations are being used to illustrate the emergence of new social movements among
migrants and ethnic minorities, and their struggle against structural discrimination and for
civil rights. Students are expected to participate in the discussion and are encouraged to
bring forward other examples from around the world.
Readings:
Ålund, Aleksandra and Isak Reichel (2007) ”Civic Agency for Social Inclusion: Reflections on Swedish
Citizens' Associations Established on Ethnic Grounds”, in Berggren, Erik, Branka Likic-Brboric,
Gulay Toksöz and Nicos Trimikliniotis, International migration, informal labour and
community: A challenge for Europe, Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, pp. 314–331.
Mulinari, Diana and Anders Neergaard (2005). ”‘Black skull’ consciousness: the new Swedish
working class”, Race and Class, 46 (3): 55–72.
Workshop
15.15-17.00
Group 3, Room B323(Chair Anna)
Group 4, Room B426 (Chair Diana)
See separate instructions
Evening activities – to be announced later
18.30-21.00
See separate instructions
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Thursday 19 April
Lecture: Racialised Working Bodies – The Service Sector
10.15–12.00, Room B43
Lecturer: Paula Mulinari, Malmö University
This lecture will explore how racialized and gendered process shape both labor conditions
and forms of resistance in the expanding service sector (hotel and restaurant). Theoretically
it departs from the efforts made by a number of researchers that have critically combined
theories of labor processes with feminist and postcolonial analysis of gender and
“race”/ethnicity, as well as by Black/postcolonial feminist contributions that have
illuminated the shortcomings of traditional gender analysis of the labor market. The service
sector is one of the most expanding branches in Europe and a central location of new flexible
and casual labor regimes, and the working conditions are often racially and gendered coded.
The lecture poses questions such as What are the relationships between bodies, spaces and
desire regimes, and how do they impact on the relationship between employees, employers
and consumers? And how is resistance to overcome exploitation, sexism and racism
articulated and acted upon in these contexts?
Readings:
Acker, Joan (2006) “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations”, Gender &
Society, 20 (4): 441-64.
Heather Ferguson, Bulan, Rebecka J. Erickson and Amy S. Wharton (1997) "Doing for Others on the
Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being." Social
Problems, 44(2): 235-256.
Dyer, Sarah, L. Linda McDowell and Adina Batnitzky (2010). "The Impact of Migration on the
Gendering of Service Work: The Case of a West London Hotel", Gender, Work &
Organization, 17(6): 635-657.
Sassen (2000) “The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier”. http://www.indiaseminar.com/2001/503/503%20saskia%20sassen.htm
Thompson, Paul and Chris Smith (2009) "Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the
Marginality of the Sociology of Work", Sociology, 43(5): 913-930.
Recommended additional reading:
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano (1992) ”From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuity in the Racial
Division of Paid Reproductive Labor”, Signs, 18 (1): 1-43.
Seminar: Intersectionality and (Service) Work
13.15–15.00, Room B43
Intersectionality as both a theoretical and methodological tool is used in different ways in
studies of wage labor, especially in relation to domestic work. In this seminar we will focus
on the implications of intersectional analyses on service work and discuss the ways that the
perspective is used in the studies below. We will raise issues such as which power relations
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are highlighted, and which are left out, and what are the implications of choosing to focus on
certain intersections and not others? We will also discuss the strengths and limits of using an
intersectional perspective when analysing paid service work.
Readings:
McDowell, Linda, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer (2007) “Division, Segmentation, and
Interpellation: The Embodied Labors of Migrant Workers in a Greater London Hotel”,
Economic Geography, 83(1): 1-25.
Bayard de Volo, Lorraine (2003) ”Service and surveillance: infrapolitics at work among casino
cocktail waitresses”, Social politics, 10 (3): 346-376.
Gavanas, Anna (2010) Who cleans the welfare state? Migration, informalization, social exclusion and
domestic services in Stockholm. Institute for Futures Studies: Research Report 2010/3
http://www.framtidsstudier.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/who-cleans-the-welfarestate.pdf
Wolkowitz, Carol (2002) "The Social Relations of body Work", Work, Employment & Society, 16(3):
497-510.
Seminar: The Sex Industry
15.15–17.00, Room B43
Further instructions will be announced later.
Readings:
Cabezas, Amalia L. (2006) ”The Eroticization of Labor in Cuba's All-Inclusive Resorts: Performing
Race, Class and Gender in the New Tourist Economy”, Social Identities, 12 (5): 507-21.
Jeffreys, Sheila (2003) ”Sex tourism: do women do it too?”, Leisure Studies, 22(3): 223-238.
Phillips, Joan (2008) ”Female Sex Tourism In Barbados: A Postcolonial Perspective”, Brown Journal
Of World Affairs, 14(2): 201-212.
Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez (2006) ”Female sex tourism: a contradiction in terms?”, Feminist Review,
(83): 42-59.
Additional recommended readings:
Agustín, Laura (2006), 'The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex', Journal of
Ethnic & Migration Studies, 32 (1): 29-47.
Thorbek, Susanne & Pattanaik, Bandana (red.) (2002). Transnational prostitution: changing patterns
in a global context. New York: Zed Books.
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Friday 20 April
Lecture: Migrant Women and Domestic Work
9.00 –11.00, Room B43
Lecturer:
Helma Lutz, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Guest Professor at Linköping University.
This lecture focuses on domestic work and how it connects to the new waves of European
migration. Links between restrictive migratory policies – which stimulate the growing
importance of the informal economy – a shrinking welfare state and demands for cheap
migrant women’s labour in the service sector will be discussed. The lecture also scrutinizes
different citizenship conditions for migrants within the domestic/care sector across Europe
and provides the students with detailed empirical examples as well as theoretical and
analytical challenges in the research field.
Readings:
Lutz, Helma (2011) Transnational Women and the Care Economy, London: Zed Books. Chapter 1, pp.
1-17.
Lutz, Helma and E. Palenga-Möllenbeck (2011) "Care, Gender and Migration: Towards a Theory of
Transnational Domestic Work Migration in Europe", Journal of Contemporary European
Studies, 19(3): 349-364.
Lutz, Helma (2008) “Introduction” in, Lutz, Helma (ed.) Migration and domestic work; A European
Perspective on a Global Theme. Aldershot: Ashgate. Available at:
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754647904
Lutz, Helma (2007) “The ‘Intimate Others’: Migrant Domestic Workers in Europé, in Berggren, Erik,
Branka Likic-Brboric, Gülay Toksöz, and Nicos Trimikliniotis (eds), Irregular Migration,
Informal Labour and Community: A Challenge for Europe, Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, pp.
226–241.
Additional recommended readings:
Lutz, Helma (2011) Transnational Women and the Care Economy, London: Zed Books.
Lutz, Helma (ed.) (2008) Migration and domestic work; A European Perspective on a Global Theme.
Aldershot: Ashgate.
Course Evaluation
11.30 – 12.30, Room B43
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Examination
The student is required to write an individual paper (8–10 pages) to receive a grade for the
course.
The type-face to be used in the paper is Times or Times New Roman, and the spacing should
be 1,5. For referencing use either the Oxford system (footnotes) or the Harvard system
(parentheses).
The Oxford system: ”a human community that (successfully claims) the
monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”.1
1Weber, 1958: 78 (footnotes either at the end of the page, or at the end of the
paper)
The Harvard system: ”a human community that (successfully claims) the
monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”
(Weber 1958: 78).
The paper should end with a list of the references.
Further details about the paper and other assignments will be given during the course
introduction.
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Lecturers
Dr. Anna Bredström
REMESO, Linköping University
Prof. Gail Lewis
The Open University, United Kingdom
Prof. Helma Lutz
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Prof. Diana Mulinari, Lund University
Dr. Paula Mulinari, Malmö University
Prof. Aleksandra Ålund
REMESO, Linköping University
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