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The seminar module offers a more extensive and more thorough analysis of a topic from within political science. To this end, the seminar module provides an overview and a critical discussion of the literature and the issues relevant for the topic of the seminar.
This seminar is intended to give students knowledge of theories and conceptualizations of identity, nationalism, the roles of religion and secularism, and integration policies and to enable students to 1) actively use these to analyze existing societal dynamics and policy to deal with increasingly diverse societies, and 2) evaluate their usefulness for understanding society and politics. Upon completion of the seminar, it is expected that participants will be able to explain, evaluate the usefulness of and use the following for conducting social and political analysis:
Western European states have experienced successive waves of labor and refugee immigration over the past half-century that have posed new challenges: how can the-se new publics, often culturally and religiously distinct from the majority populations, be integrated into the established social and political communities? Relations of immigrant minorities are often characterized by social, political and economic inequality, and religious and ethnic difference give opportunity for fears of the loss of national identity and of threats like religious extremist violence to influence debate and policy. What are the natures of these "national communities" that immigrants have come to, and what do we know about personal and ethnic identity that can help us understand how individuals and groups integrate into or withdraw from receiving societies? Literature on nationalism, identity, religion/secularism, intergroup relations, integration processes and integration politics in a variety of contexts will inform our theoretical frameworks for how to study integration processes and policy.
The course will include study and discussion of integration of diverse populations in terms of the sociological processes that constitute it and of the political and social challenges it presents to modern societies, with a focus on Western Europe. Over 9 weeks of lectures and class discussion, we will examine existing research on immigrant integration and current state integration policies through lenses shaped by theories and work on national and ethnic identity; intergroup relations and superordinate (uniting national) identities; religion and secularism in modern societies; methods of studying and measuring identity and integration; integration and citizenship politics in immigrant-receiving societies; and Muslims in Europe. With its focus on identity as key to understanding integration processes, the seminar examines the role that minority and national identities interact in established national contexts. In other words: when and how do minorities who differ ethnically, culturally or religiously from majority populations become part of receiving societies, especially when these societies have already formed consensuses around questions of national identity, religion-state relations, and ways of life? In light of existing literature, we will discuss how best to analyze identity and integration, and students will be prepared and encouraged to use these concepts and tools to conduct independent analysis on a case of their choice for the final paper.
Sociology
Of the nine seminars the student has to pass as part of the MA degree, at least six seminar modules have to be in political science.
Emily Cochran Bech
The assessment method is home assignment.
External examiner/Graded marking.
The seminar module requires active participation of students. At the beginning of the seminar module the lecturer and the students agree on specific "activity requirements" that the students have to fulfill.
Instruction will be based on different bodies of thought and research on aspects of nation, identity and integration processes. Theoretical perspectives will be presented through lectures and class discussion, and the class will engage in evaluation of current research using the theories and concepts presented in the literature. Students will be expected to have read the course material before the corresponding class sessions and to check the course site on AULA regularly, and will be asked during class sessions to participate in evaluation of both theory and research.
The seminar will meet 9 times for regular class sessions. Two course sessions (weeks 8-9) will be set aside for group meetings with the instructor for preliminary feedback on research paper proposals and initial drafts. Students will be expected to have read, and be ready to comment on, the paper drafts of the other students in their paper discussion groups.
The module compendium consists of about 1,200 pages.
Concerning the home assignment the student agrees with the lecturer the reading which is relevant for the research question of the home assignment. The reading forms part of the 1,200 pages which students have to read for each seminar module.
The literature list below is preliminary; a final list will be posted on AULA and distributed at the first class. The books by Gellner (1983) and Howard (2009) are recommended for purchase for the course and are available at Politologisk Bogformidling. Unless otherwise noted, all journal articles are available through the Aarhus University Library website (with direct links from the course site on AULA); however, please be aware that you usually need to access them from within the university's network (if you want to access from elsewhere, try gaining remote access to articles through the Royal Library website (kb.dk)).
Introduction: problems of integration
2010. The Economist. "Multikulturell? Wir?: How a fresh debate on multiculturalism in Germany clashes with the country's need for more immigrants." 11 Nov. 2010. Accessible at: http://www.economist.com/node/17469563?story_id=17469563
Joppke, Christian. 2009. "Limits of integration policy: Britain and her Muslims." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(3): 453-472.
Entzinger, Han, and Renske Biezeveld. 2003. "Benchmarking in Immigrant Integration." Report for the European Commission. European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Givens, Terri E. 2007. "Immigrant Integration in Europe: Empirical Research." Annual Review of Political Science 10: 67-83.
National identity: history and theories
Benedict Anderson. 1991 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Nature and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Pages 1-7, 36-46 (PDF on AULA), Chapters 1-3 if you have access to the book. E-book available at http://hdl.handle.net.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk:2048/2027/heb.01609 )
Ernest Gellner. 1983. Nations and Nationalism . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-62).
Marx, Anthony. 2002. "The Nation State and Its Exclusions." Political Science Quarterly 117(1): 103-126.
Fox, Jon E. and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. 2008. "Everyday nationhood." Ethnicities 8: 536-563.
Religious minorities and secularist society-state arrangements
Wald, Kenneth D., Adam L. Silverman, Kevin S. Fridy. "Making Sense of Religion in Political Life." Annual Review of Political Science 8: 121-143. (Link on AULA)
Tatari, Eren. 2009. "Theories of the State Accommodation of Islamic Religious Practices in Western Europe." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(2): 271-288.
Roy, Olivier. 2007. Secularism Confronts Islam . New York: Columbia University Press. Preface, Introduction, Chapters 3-4: pp. vii-xiii, 1-12, 65-102. (E-book site with entire PDF for download through AU library site: http://www.ciaonet.org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk:2048/book/cup10017/)
Modood, Tariq. 2010. "Moderate Secularism, Religion as Identity and Respect for Religion." Political Quarterly 81(1): 4-14. (Link on AULA)
Identity and Ethnicity
Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper. 2000. "Beyond ‘Identity.'" Theory and Society 9:1-47. (Link on AULA)
Brubaker, Rogers, Mara Loveman and Peter Stamatov. 2004. "Ethnicity as Cognition." Theory and Society 33: 31-64. (Link on AULA)
Calhoun, Craig. 2003. "The Variability of Belonging: a Reply to Rogers Brubaker." Eth-nicities 3(4): 558-568. (Link on AULA)
Chandra, Kanchan.. 2006. "What is Ethnic Identity and Does It Matter?." Annual Review of Political Science 9: 397-424. (Link on AULA)
Posner, Daniel N.. 2004. "The political salience of cultural difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi." American Political Science Review 98(04): 529-545. (Link on AULA)
Intergroup Relations and Superordinate Identities
Brewer, Marilynn B. 2001. "Ingroup Identification and Intergroup Conflict: When Does Ingroup Love Become Outgroup Hate?" in R. D. Ashmore (ed.), Social Identity, Intergroup Conflict, and Conflict Reduction , 17-41. (E-book through AU Library: http://site.ebrary.com.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk:2048/lib/stats/docDetail.action?docID=10084794 ) Select "Infotools," then print pages 30-54.
Dovidio, John F., Samuel L. Gaertner, Gordon Hodson, Melissa A. Houlette and Kelly M. Johnson. 2005. "Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Recategorization and the Perception of Intergroup Boundaries," in Dominic Abrams, Michael A. Hogg and José M. Marques (eds.), Social Psychology of Inclusion and Exclusion. New York: Psychology Press, 245-264. (PDF on AULA)
Pehrson, Samuel, Vivian L. Vignoles and Rupert Brown. 2009. "National identification and anti-immigrant prejudice: Individual and contextual effects of national definitions." Social Psychology Quarterly 72(1): 24-38.
Transue, John E.. 2007. "Identity Salience, Identity Acceptance, and racial policy attitudes: American national identity as a uniting force." American Journal of Political Science 51(1): 78-91.
Operationalizing identity and integration: how can (and should) we study it?
(Refresh your reading/memory of Brukbaker and Brubaker et al. (week 4) Entzinger and Biezevald (week 1)).
Waters, Mary C. and Tomas R. Jiménez. 2005. "Assessing immigrant assimilation: New empirical and theoretical challenges." Annual Review of Sociology 31: 105-125.
Bueker, Catherine Simpson. 2005. "Political incorporation among immigrants from ten areas of origin: The persistence of source country effects." International Migration Review 39(1): 103-40.
Research, Information and Communications Unit. 2010. Understanding Perceptions of the Terms 'Britishness' and 'Terrorism'. Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, UK Home Office.
Comparing national integration and citizenship models
Wilcox, Shelley. 2004. "Culture, National Identity, and Admission to Citizenship." Social Theory and Practice 30(4): 559-582.
Jacobs, Dirk, Andrea Rea. 2007. "The End of National Models? Integration Courses and Citizenship Trajectories in Europe." International Journal on Multicultural Societies 9(2): 264-283.
Howard, Marc Morjé. 2009. The Politics of Citizenship in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Introduction, Chapters 1 and 4-7.
Gustafson, Per. 2005. "International migration and national belonging in the Swedish debate on dual citizenship." Acta Sociologica 48(1): 5-19.
Muslims in Europe
Mandaville, Peter. 2009. "Muslim Transnational Identity and State Responses in Europe and the UK after 9/11: Political Community, Ideology and Authority." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(3): 491-506.
Hellyer, H. A. 2007. Engagement with the Muslim Community and Counter-Terrorism: British Lessons for the West. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. (35 pages)
Kyriakides, Christopher, Satnam Virdee and Tariq Modood. 2009. "Racism, Muslims and the National Imagination." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(2): 289-308.
Yukleyen, Ahmet.. 2009. "State Policies and Islam in Europe: Milli Görü_ in Germany and the Netherlands." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(1): 445-463.
Statham, Paul, Ruud Koopmans, Marco Giugni, Florence Passy. 2005. "Resilient or Adaptable Islam?: Multiculturalism, Religion and Migrants' Claims-Making for Group Demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France." Ethnicities 5(4): 427-459.
What drives integration/ withdrawal?
Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, Thomas J. Espenshade. 2001. "Immigrant incorporation and political participation in the United States." International Migration Review 35(3): 870-909.
Koopmans, Ruud, Paul Statham. 2001. "How National Citizenship Shapes Transnationalism. A Comparative Analysis of Migrant Claims-making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands." Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 17(2): 63-100.
