Migrant Memories

Addressing the phenomena of collective memory and international migration together seems relevant to us in three ways: First, the narratives of individuals who are displaced and have been displaced historically around the world—narratives where their situated perspectives, imaginaries, and memories intersect—have been constitutive of the development of what is now known as migration studies; and simultaneously, they have been the foundation for challenging and reconsidering reductionist theories and categorizations regarding migratory processes and their protagonists. Second, these narratives, through multiple formats and platforms, have contributed to making visible the social, political, and economic conflicts in our societies—from inequalities to persecution—and to problematizing their autonomy. As “memories,” they are also catalysts for other processes of remembrance in relation to, for example, the role of colonialism and capitalist development in shaping and perpetuating current scenarios of emigration and immigration. Third, these narratives and the memories they "mobilize" challenge the selectivity of the memories and forgetting of past emigrants in the societies and countries now considered recipients; as well as their participation in shaping immigration scenarios, potentially contributing to questioning imaginaries, practices, and policies of exclusion and expulsion.

GENERAL PURPOSE

To critically reflect on the possible connections between memories and migrations, and their theoretical and political consequences.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

That the students:

• Learn about and reflect on the impact of jointly analyzing the processes of (r)elaboration of collective memories and international migrations. Specifically, how this challenges traditional understandings of both phenomena and opens spaces for their reconsideration.

• Analyze the importance of the “place” or “non-place of memory” of migrations in official/unofficial memories, and the possible repercussions of their visibility, circulations and developments.

• Learn about and analyze examples of empirical research and theorizations that focus on migrant narratives and the memories woven within them, their relationship with the rethinking of dominant knowledge about migrating subjects and their trajectories, as well as their understandings and situated practices in relation to belonging.

• Learn about and analyze proposals that focus on materialities and artifacts in the practices of making memory, as well as those related to the recognition and representation of migrant memories through heritage preservation.

• Problematizing notions and concepts: International migrations
• Migration and Human Rights
• Problematizing notions and concepts: collective memories
• The non-place of memory of migrations in the nation's narratives
• The place of migrant memories in migration studies
• Exiles, exiles, and their memories
• Migrant women, migration and memory as gendered phenomena
• Diaspora and transnationalism: memories in motion
• Borders and belongings: location, connection and remembrance
• Objects, artifacts, materialities and migrant memories
• Heritage-making of memory and migrations

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The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

• Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
• Internet access.
• Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
• Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.

The seminars last 10 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

A course consists of 10 classes, each accompanied by required reading bibliography, supplementary bibliography, discussion forums and training activities proposed by the teaching team, partial deliveries and a final project.

The course is online and asynchronous. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In those cases, the time and date will be agreed upon beforehand between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation.

To pass the seminar, you must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the teachers, have completed the scheduled partial deliveries, and pass the final work.