Syllabus for POST 113: Immigrants, Citizenship and Nationalism in Europe

Nigel Boyle

Elise Magistro

Roswitha Burwick

Nathalie Rachlin

Immigration and multiculturalism will be examined at the level of the European Union and at the nation state level for Germany, Italy, France and Britain. Topics to be explored include: the development of citizenship law in different states; nationalism in the context of European integration; the politics of xenophobia and xenophilia; and immigrants as political actors.  Analysis will focus on the role of divergent national traditions (rooted in the development of nationalisms and colonial histories) and the convergent pressures resulting from European integration. Students with 3 semesters or more of French, Italian or German may opt to participate in half course language sections connected to the main course as part of the "Language Across The Curriculum" program.

In the first part of the course we will critically examine the concepts of nationality and citizenship. We will then examine the ways in which nationality came to be defined in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union.  In the middle part of the course we will focus on the contemporary politics of the "new" multicultural Europe. The central focus here will be on xenophobic nationalism, immigrant and minority politics and the cultural impact of the changing face of European societies. The material covered in these first two parts of the course will be examined on April 9.  The latter part of the course will consist of presentations by small groups (3-5) of students.  Three of these groups will be formed out of the German, Italian and French language sections.  The other groups will focus on either Britain/Scandinavia, Eastern Europe or the Mediterranean region (Spain/Portugal/Greece and North Africa).   The groups formed out of the language sections will have extra responsibilities, including making presentations to area High School teachers/students.  The format for these presentations will vary but powerpoint-based multimedia presentations are encouraged.

Course Grade
The course grade will be comprised of:
1. April 9^th Exam: 25%
2. Group project/presentation to class: 25%
3. A 15 page paper due May 2^nd  (1 page proposal due March 26th): 25%
4. Class participation, attendance and occasional reports to class 25%

Reading/Viewing Requirements and Suggestions

Regular reading of European newspapers on-line is required. The following are strongly recommended.
Financial Times
Der Spiegel
Le Monde
Corriere della sera

In addition to this required reading the syllabus lists "supplementary" books for each topic.  This reading is recommended for the apposite week.  This supplementary reading is also a basis for the research papers students will undertake and these papers must reference several of the items from the supplementary list.  Students are also expected to view and report on at least two films relevant to course topics.  A preliminary list of such films is attached.

Students will be expected to attend a number of events sponsored by the California European Union Center.

Week 2 (January 22 and 24) Imagined Communities? Do Nations Have Navels?
Required
E. Gellner “Nations and Nationalism: definitions”
B. Anderson “The Nation and the Origins of National Consciousness”
Rogers Smith "Race, Immigration and the Politics of People-Building"
Etienne Balibar "Racism and Crisis"
Supplementary
*Eugen Webber Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914
Geoff Eley, From Unification to Nazism
Jim Bulpitt, Territory and Power in the United Kingdom
Carlo Levi Christ Stopped at Eboli
*Tom Nairn  Faces of Nationalism : Janus Revisited
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

January 22 must-see speaker Bassam Tibi "Europe without an Identity: the crisis of Multicultural Society" 4:15 pm, Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps College.

Week 3 (January 29 and 31) Citizenship, Rights, Nationhood and Race
Required
The National Assembly of France, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Council Of Europe European Convention on Human Rights The European Convention on Human Rights
The Maastricht Treaty (Article 8), "Citizenship and the Union"
Rogers Brubaker Citizenship and Nationalism in France and Germany Ch 1-3
John Dickie " Imagined Italies"
Herman Lebovics True France Ch 1-2
Gurinder Chadha "I'm British but..." (video)
Supplementary
*Rogers Brubaker, The Institution of Citizenship
*Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationalism in France and Germany
Nicola Piper Racism, nationalism and citizenship : ethnic minorities in Britain and Germany
The General Assembly of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
*Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson (eds) Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship
*Alexander Stille  Benevolence and Betrayal : Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
Anne O'Dowd Spalpeens and Tattie Hokers: Irish Migratory Agricultural Worker in Ireland and Britain
Jeffrey Peck (ed) Turks and Jews: Comparing Minorities in Germany after the Holocaust
Susan Zuccotti The Italians and the Holocaust : Persecution, Rescue, and Survival
Giorgio Bassani The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Susan Tebbutt (ed) Sinti and Roma Gypsies in German-speaking society and literature
Richard Rubenstein and John Roth Approaches to Auschwitz
Peter Baldwin (ed) Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians Debate
Paula E. Hyman The Jews of modern France
Michael Cohn The Jews in Germany, 1945-1993 : the building of a minority
David A. Brenner Marketing identities : the invention of Jewish ethnicity in Ost und West

Week 4 (February 5 and 7)  European Imperialism, Colonial Practice and Decolonization
Required
David Beriss "High Folklore: challenges to the French cultural world order"
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost Ch 15
Pred reading
Supplementary
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost
Russell A. Berman Enlightenment or empire : colonial discourse in German culture
Dan Segal and Handler Nations, Colonies and Metropoles (1993)

February 6 Must-see visiting speaker Allan Pred "Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination" at 11am at Hahn 108, Pomona.  There is also a 4:15 seminar at Pearson 204, Pomona.

Week 5 (February 12 and 14) No classes.  Students will attend talks by visiting speakers February 6 and 27.

Week 6 (February 19 and 21) European Integration and Migration 1945-1992
Required
Martin Baldwin-Edwards and Martin Schain, "The Politics of Immigration", West European Politics, 1994
Russell King, European International Migration, 1945-90: A Statistical and Geographical Overview
Federico Romero "Migration as an issue in European interdependence and integration: the case of Italy"
Philip Martin "Germany: Reluctant land of Immigration"
The European Union: A Guide for Americans
Desmond Dinan, Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to the European Community Ch 5 and 6
Supplementary
*James Hollifield, Immigrants, Markets and States
Cornelius, Wayne A., Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield. Eds. Controlling Immigration: A Global
Perspective.
Klaus Bade and Myron Weiner (eds) Migration Past, Migration Futures: Germany and the US
Castles, Stephen Mark J. Miller. The Age of Migration. International Population Movements
in the Modern World.
Castles, Stephen, with Heather Booth and Tina Wallace. Here for Good. Western Europe’s
New Ethnic Minorities.
The Maastricht Treaty
Europa (EU institutions umbrella website, in language of your choice)
European Union Websites
European Union Centers in the United States
Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander C-G. Stubb, The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration

Week 7 (February 26 and 28) The Emergence of European Immigration and Citizenship Policy
Required
Alan Butt Philip, European Union Immigration Policy: Phantom, Fantasy or Fact?, WEP April 1994
Miriam Feldblum "Nationality Reform in the 1990's"
G. Brochmann and T. Hammar "Mechanisms of Immigration Control" (Intro and Conclusion)
Center for International and European Law on Immigration and Asylum containing:
Proposal for a Council Act establishing Convention on rules for the admission of third-country nationals
Joint Action 16 december 1996 - uniform format for residence permits
Joint Position 4 March 1996 - harmonized application of the term 'refugee'
Resolution 20 June 94 - limitation on admission of TCN for employment
Resolution 30 November 92 - harmonized approach concerning host third countries
The Amsterdam Treaty "The gradual establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice"
The Amsterdam Teaty: a Comprehensive guide  "Citizenship of the EU"
Supplementary
*Elizabeth Meehan, Citizenship and the European Community
Kay Hailbronner, Third Country Nationals and EC Law
Carter, Donald.  States of Grace : Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration
Elizabeth Midgeley "Immigration and Asylum in Germany and the United States: challenges and choices"
Rainer Munz and Myron Weiner Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy: US and German PoliciesToward Countries of Origin
Kay Hailbronner, David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura Immigration Admissions: the Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the US or Immigration Controls: the Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the US

February 27th must-see speaker.  Anita Gradin, fmr EU Commissioner from Sweden delivers the "State of the European Union Address" at noon, Balch auditorium, Scripps.

March 2-3.  Students will be invited to participate in a series of activities with High School Social Studies teachers.  These will include a dinner on Friday March 2nd and an allay conference on the European Union on Saturday March 3rd.

Week 8 (March 5 and 7) The New Europe and the Newest Europeans
Required Browsing
The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
The European Centre for Minority Issues
Centre for New Ethnicities Research and via this:
ASEN Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism London School of Economics, UK
BIVS Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research
CEIFO - Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations Stockholm, Sweden
CERES Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland.
CRER - Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations University of Warwick, UK
EIN - Electronic Immigration Network
EMZ European Migration Centre
ERCOMER - European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
ESPR The Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit, University of Bradford, UK
ETHNIC-L  A Network of Groups sponsoring Ethnicity Research
Ethnicity Research Centre at Leicester University
Race, Ethnicity and Politics American Political Science Association
Refugee Studies Programme Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University

March 6 must-see speaker Iain McLean "Thatcher, Blair, and the Great Moving Right Show: Rhetoric and Heresthetic in UK Political Economy since 1979"

March 7 Noon Hilary Appel "Different Ways of Creating Capitalism in Eastern Europe" Oldenbourg, Pomona

Spring Break March 9-18

Week 9 (March 19 and 21) Racisms, and the Politics of Xenophobia
Required
Racism in Europe: unity and diversity. Michel Wieviorka
C. Flood "Organizing Fear and Indignation: the Front National in France"
Anne Stoler "On the cultural Politics of the French Radical Right"
Supplementary
*Gunter Wallraff Lowest of the Low
Benjamin Barber Jihad versus McWorld
*Balibar, Etienne & Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities.
Poliakov, Leon. The Aryan Myth. A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe.
Taguieff, Pierre Andre. La force du prejuge. Essai sur le racisme e ses doubles.
Witte, Rob. Racist Violence and the State. A Comparative Analysis of Britain, France and the Netherlands.
Tore Björgo and Rob Witte (eds) Racist violence in Europe
Panikos Panayi (ed)  Racial violence in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
PaulGilroy 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' : the cultural politics of race and nation
Kathleen Paul Whitewashing Britain : race and citizenship in the postwar era

Class on March 26 will be a research workshop for the group and research projects.  Class will be held at Honnold Library.  1-page proposal and bibliography for the research paper is due March 28.
Students will research:
(a) their country's position on east European and non-European migration issues
(b) to gather materials for the group presentation
(c) to gather information about the topic for their research paper.

Week 10 (March 28) Anti-racisms and the Politics of Xenophilia
 Immigration in Europe
Jeanette Money "Fences and Neighbors: the political geography of Immigration Control"
Julie Watts "Italian and Spanish Labour Leaders' Unconventional Immigration Policy Preferences"
Leti Volpp "Feminism versus multiculturalism: immigrant women and difference"
John Rex  "The concept of a multicultural society".
Vanessa Maher "Immigration and Social Identities in Italy"
Supplementary
Spring 2000 Conference "In Migration" papers
David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky Turkish Cultures in German Society Today
Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay The African-German experience :
Benton, Gregor and Pieke, Frank. Eds The Chinese in Europe.
Borneman , John and Jeffrey M. Peck. Sojourners. The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity.
Council of Europe. Tackling Racism and Xenophobia. Practical Action at the Local Level. .
Irish Diaspora Studies
Eurasie: webzine de la culture asiatique en France (in French)
ETHNOLOGIE DER MIGRATION (In German)
Pro Asyl - Human Rights Organisation For Refugees In Germany (in German)

Week 11 (April 2 and 4) Immigrant Politics and the Cultural Impact of Immigration on Europe
April 2 class will be led by Tiffany Keith and Eliana Aiassa (film-based presentation).
April 4th class will include revision for the exam and for the EU simulation.
Required
John Gross et al "Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity"
Khaled "N’ssi N’ssi" (tape)
MC Solaar "Prose Combat" (tape)
Specials/UB40/Clash/Jam/XTC "RastaSkaPunkMod" (Boyle compilation tape)
Stiff Little Fingers/Proclaimers/Pogues/Morrissey/Elvis Costello "CeltiNatPostPunk" (Boyle compilation tape)
Elcin Kursat-Ahlers "The Turkish Minority in German Society"
Yasemin Karakasoglu "Turkish Cultural Orientations in Germany and the role of Islam"
Supplementary
John Lydon No Blacks, no Dogs, no Irish
Metcalf, Barbara Daly.  Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe.
Nonneman, Gerd, Tim Niblock and Bogdan Szajkowski. Eds Muslim Communities in the New Europe.
Vertovec, Steven and Ceri Peach. Eds Islam In Europe. The Politics of Religion and Community.
Arthur Wesley Helweg Sikhs in England
Patrick R. Ireland The policy challenge of ethnic diversity : immigrant politics in France and Switzerland
Gerholm, Tomas and Yngbe Georg Lithman. Eds. The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe..
Liebkind, Karmela. Ed. New Identities in Europe. Immigrant Ancestry and the Ethnic Identity of Youth.
Metcalf, Barbara Daly. Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe.
Arthur Wesley Helweg Sikhs in England

April 9 Exam

Week 12 (April 11) Simulation

Week 13 (April 16 and 18) Group Presentations: Germany and Italy

Week 14 (April 23 and 25) Group Presentations: France and Britain/Scandinavia

Week 15 (April 31 and May 2nd) Group Presentations: Greece/E. Europe and Spain

Papers due May 2nd

Suggested Films

1. Rude Boy, Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Scum, Jubilee
2. Bhaji on the Beach, My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
3. Journey of Hope, America America
4. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Christ Stopped at Eboli
5. Hate (La Haine), The Battle of Algiers
6. Bye Bye , De l’autre cote du periph,
7. Story of a Three Day Pass, To Sir With Love
8. Secrets and Lies, Cafe Au Lait
9. Bread and Chocolate, In the Name of the Father
10. Rosa Luxemburg, Michael Collins
11. After the Rain, Lamerica