SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION

Disciplinary Sector:

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

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

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SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES

SOCIAL WORK

AF code:

A000274

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course will allow students to frame the phenomena of human mobility and migration, to analyze the causes and dynamics of social change that it produces.
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 migrations. Theories on the causes of international migrations. Different aspects of the migration phenomenon in Italy. The news processes of transnationalism. The forced migrations. Second generation of migrants. Connections between migration and development of countries of origin.

Recommended Bibliography

Students attending lectures:
- M. Ambrosini, Sociologia delle Migrazioni, il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (Chapters 1/2/4/6/7/9/10/11/12).

Students not attending lectures:
- M. Ambrosini, Sociologia delle Migrazioni, il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (Chapters 1/2/4/6/7/9/12)
- T. Bellavia, T. Poguish (a cura di), Decolonizzare le migrazioni. Razzismo, confini, marginalità, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, 2018 (pp. 7-

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal classes. Only for students of L/39 attendance of lessons is mandatory for 50% of hours but attendance at course is highly recommended because it’s a fundamental educational activity to acquire the knowledge indicated in the learning outcomes.

Contacts/More Information

SDGs
Teaching contributes to achieving the objectives of Agenda 2030 UN Sustainable Development: 4. Quality Education, 5. Gender Equality and 10. Reducing inequalities.

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 only 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, Spanish and

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