Syllabus: Citizenship and Migration
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CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION: SYLLABUS
Course No.
LAW6054-01
Course Title
시민권과 국제이주 (Citizenship and Migration)
Instructor
Chulwoo Lee
College of Law, Yonsei University
Email) chulwoo.lee@yonsei.ac.kr
Phone) 02-2123-6025
Hours & Place 10am-12:50pm, Tuesday, Room 211 in Gwangbokkwan (the Law
Building)
Course Description
Migration is one of the most prominent features of globalization. It poses challenges
and brings changes to the nation-state-based segmentation of the world population
and the international and national systems predicated on and enforcing the
segmentation. The course seeks to help students broaden and deepen their
understanding of migration as an important element of their global awareness. The
course consists of thirteen seminars, including the introductory session in the first
week, and a special session to be held by way of either an invited guest talk (e.g., by a
migrant rights campaigner) or a visit to a relevant place (e.g., to a migrant shelter),
depending on the students’ interests. The first half of the seminars (up to the 7th week)
will offer an overview of the history and the current state of international migration,
introduce key concepts and theories regarding migration, ethnic identity and
nationhood, and provide discussions of state policies for controlling migration and of
the acquisition and enjoyment of citizenship. The second half (from the 9th week) is
mainly for case studies of migrant/minority groups in/from Korea – migrant workers,
foreign spouses and children, the ethnic Chinese population, ethnic Koreans in other
countries, and North Koreans who have left North Korea. These cases will be inquired
into in light of general theories and comparative knowledge of global situations. Each
student will be required to conduct research of one of those cases or a related case and
to present the result of the research in one of the seminar sessions. All discussion will
be conducted in English.
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Themes and Reading Requirements
Week 1 (March 6): Introduction and Overview
- An introduction to the nature of the course, the way teaching and discussion will be
conducted, themes to be covered, and to the textbook and reading materials. A brief
overview of the current state of global migration.
☞ Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration: International Population
Movements in the Modern World, 3rd edition revised and updated (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003), pp.1-20.
Weeks 2&3 (March 13&20): Migration, Ethnic Identity, and Nation – Concepts, Theories
and Explanations
- Emphasis on the need to combine migration studies and the study of ethnicity and
nationalism. Diverse theories explaining migration. The meanings of ethnie and nation
conceived by differing theorists of ethnicity and nationalism.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.21-43, 47-49.
☞ Anthony D. Smith and Ernest Gellner, “The Nation: Real or Imagined? – The
Warwick Debates on Nationalism,” Nations and Nationalism 2(3), 1996, pp.357-370.
☞ Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), pp.21-31.
☞ Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985),
pp.116-121.
Week 4 (March 27): The History of International Migration
- An overview of international migration before and after 1945.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.50-93.
Week 5 (April 3): Coping with Migration – Admission and Closure
- Measures and methods of states in controlling migration and programs for limited
accommodation of migrants. Legal regimes regarding refugees and asylum and recent
phenomena related to forced migration.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.94-121.
Week 6 (April 10): From Migrants to Citizens
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- The concepts of nationality and citizenship. Routes of acquiring nationality and
citizenship. Approaches to plural nationality/citizenship. Rights entailed by citizenship.
Rights of denizens.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.43-47.
☞ Stephen Castles and Alastair Davidson, Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and
the Politics of Belonging (London: Routledge, 2000), pp.84-128.
Week 7 (April 17): The Globalization of Migration
- Waves of migration in and from the Middle East, including Turkish and Moroccan
Migrations to Europe and the situation of Kurdish refugees, migrations in and from
Africa, and movements in Central and Latin America and from the region to North
America, including developments related to Dominica and Mexico, Asian migrations
to North America and Australia and labor migrations within Asia.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.122-177.
Week 8 (April 24): mid-term break
Week 9 (May 1): Case Study – Migrant Workers in Korea
- Economic situations of migrants and the labor market segmentation. The
transformation of Korea’s policy towards migrant workers and the changing
conditions of migrant workers in Korea.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.178-197.
☞ Chulwoo Lee, “’Us’ and ‘Them’ in Korean Law: The Creation, Accommodation and
Exclusion of Outsiders in South Korea,” in Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y.
K. Woo (eds.), East Asian Law – Universal Norms and Local Cultures (London:
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp.111-120.
Week 10 (May 8): Case Study – Foreign Spouses and Mixed-Race Children in MultiEthnic Korea
- The process through which Korea has become a multi-ethnic society. The condition of
Amerasians in Korea and how US immigration law treats them. Mixed marriages with
Asian men and women, and children from such marriages. Ethnic minorities and their
integration in Korea.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.220-254.
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☞ Dong-Hoon Seol, Hye-kyung Lee, and Sung Nam Cho, “International Marriage
Families in Korea,” Paper presented at the International Conference on Global
Migration and the Household in East Asia, February 2-3, 2007, Seoul, Korea.
☞ Chulwoo Lee, “’Us’ and ‘Them’ in Korean Law,” pp.124-128.
Week 11 (May 15): Case Study – Ethnic Chinese in Korea
- The evolution of the status of the huaqiao (hwagyo) in Korea and their rise to
denizenship.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.220-254.
☞ Chulwoo Lee, “’Us’ and ‘Them’ in Korean Law,” pp.120-124.
Week 12 (May 22): Case Study – The Korean Diaspora
- The meaning of diaspora and the diaspora politics of various countries. The differing
backgrounds and situations of ethnic Koreans in China, the former Soviet Union, Japan,
and North America. The characteristics of Korea’s diaspora engagement policy.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.256-257.
☞ Alan Gamlen, “Diaspora Engagement Policies: What Are They, and What Kinds of
States Use them?,” Working Paper No.32, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society,
University of Oxford, 2006.
☞ In-Jin Yoon, “The Korean Diaspora,” in Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember and Ian
Skogaard (eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the
World, Vol. 1: Overviews and Topics (New York: Kluwer/Plenum Publishers, 2004).
☞ Chulwoo Lee, “Reaching Out to Compatriots Abroad: Making Sense of the Overseas
Koreans Act and the Hungarian Status Law,” Paper presented at the International
Conference on Global Migration and the Household in East Asia, February 2-3, 2007,
Seoul, Korea.
Week 13 (May 29): Case Study – North Koreans in South Korea
- The citizenship of North Koreans under the law of the Republic of Korea. The status
of North Korean defectors under international law. The integration of North Koreans
settled in South Korea.
☞In-Jin Yoon, “North Korean Diaspora: North Korean Defectors Abroad and in South
Korea,” Development and Society 21 (2001), pp.1-26.
Week 14 (June 5): Migration, Globalization, and the Nation-State
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- Political rights and roles of migrants in sending and receiving states. Migration and
international security. Transnationalism and the nation-state.
☞ Castles and Miller, The Age of Migration, pp.255-290.
☞ Chulwoo Lee, “The Transnationalization of Citizenship and the Logic of the NationState,” Paper presented at the 6th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Sociological
Association on Asia-Pacific Societies in Globalization and Localization, September 1719, 2004, Seoul, Korea.
Special Session (date undecided): meeting with an invited guest or a visit to migrationrelated organization
- The details of the special session will be decided according to the interests of the
students and circumstances.
Textbooks and Reading Materials
☞ Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration: International Population
Movements in the Modern World, 3rd edition revised and updated (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003). Students are recommended to purchase a copy of the book
individually. An order will be placed at the Yonsei University cooperative for a
minimum number of copies.
☞The other text materials will be made available for photocopying or downloading.
☞A list of recommended readings will be handed out.
Assessment
Assessment based on the individual research of the selected theme and classroom
participation.