Migrant Memories

Seminar 1960

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Belén Rojas (Paris Diderot University – Paris 7, France)
Home: 26 / 09 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 23/09/2019

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 13/09/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

The seminar “Migrant Memories” proposes a dialogue between the processes of creating collective memories and migrations, with the aim of highlighting aspects that allow us to better understand their complexity in a context of globalization and advanced capitalism.

We will address issues considered fundamental to memory studies, such as places and sites; the disputes between official and unofficial memories; objects and heritage designation. However, the framework provided by the dialogue between memories and migrations allows us to analyze dynamics such as memories without a place and the "non-place" of migrations; the challenge to imaginaries of exclusion and the limits of belonging; and cultural initiatives as alternatives for managing political tensions, their conflictive nature, and also their potential.

At the same time, we will focus on important issues for the study of contemporary migrations, such as the diaspora and transnational spaces; as well as migrant subjectivity and the impacts of mobility regimes on its development. This is with the aim of analyzing the tension surrounding national boundaries as contours of collective memory and the possibilities of memories and counter-memories in shaping resistance to subordination and articulations from difference (Braidotti, 2006) during migrant trajectories.

Contents:

Problematizing and complicating notions and concepts
Migration and Human Rights
The “non-place of memory” of migrations and its consequences
The place of migrant memories in the development of migration studies
Exile and exiles
Migrant women and migration as a gendered phenomenon
Diaspora and Transnationalism
Border and belonging
Objects, artifacts, materialities and memory
Heritage-making of memory
Other narratives for (un)making the world

FAQ

What do I need to take a CLACSO virtual seminar?

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.

What is the length of a CLACSO virtual seminar? What is the total number of hours?

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

What is the work modality and dynamics?

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.