SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK

Disciplinary Sector:

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COCCO Mariantonietta

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The Course of General Sociology is propaedeutic to this teaching (only for L39).

AF code:

A000274

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

At the end of the course students will have acquired:
- The main conceptual tools for the understanding and study of the current phenomena of human mobility.
- A general overview of international migrations, their main interpretative models, and some related issues.

- The sensitivity and critical thinking skills required to those who work in culturally plural contexts and in social services.

Contents

The program will cover the following issues:
The social construction of migrant. Types of migrant and migrations. The feminization of migration. Second generation migrants. Theories on the causes of international migrations. Different aspects of the migration phenomenon in Italy. The news processes of transnationalism. The forced migrations. Connections between migration and development of countries

Recommended Bibliography

Students attending lectures:

Course L-39:
- M. Ambrosini, Migrazioni, Egea, Milano, 2017 (Chapters 1/7; pp. 159) .
- E. Colombo, G. Semi (a cura di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano: le pratiche della differenza, Angeli, Milano, 2007 (Chapters 3; 5, 6 namely pp. 59-76; 99-127; 128-153).

Course L-12:
- M. Ambrosini, Migrazioni, Egea, Milano, 2017 (Capp. da 1 a 7; pp. 159)
- E. Colombo, G. Semi (a cura di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano: le pratiche della differenza, Angeli, Milano, 2007 (Chapters 1; 4 namely pp. 15-36; 77-98).

Students not attending lectures:
- L. Zanfrini, Introduzione alla sociologia delle migrazioni, Laterza, Roma, 2016 (Chapters 1; 2; 4; 5 namely pp. 4-43; 44-89; 136-188; 189-239).
- T. Bellavia, T. Poguish (a cura di), Decolonizzare le migrazioni. Razzismo, confini, marginalità, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, 2018 (pp. 7-94)

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal classes.

Contacts/More Information

During the lectures will be held some meetings with scholars, local policy makers, organizations operating in the field of migration and interculture.

- During the lectures the teacher can request to the students attending lectures a written paper on a topic assigned, to be treated on the basis of the texts and other materials used in class and to discuss during the examination.

- The teacher is available to offer teaching materials and bibliographical references also in a foreign language (mainly French and English) to incoming students.

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