This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of virtual lectures, classes and online interactive activities. The contact hours listed above are the minimum expected. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of MT.
Students are expected to prepare discussion materials for presentation in the classes. Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT.
Andersson, R. (2014). Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe; Berdahl, D. (1999). Where the world ended: Re-unification and identity in the German borderland; Hastings, D., and T. Wilson (1999). Borders: Frontiers of identity, nation and state; Khosravi, S. (2010). 'Illegal' traveller: an auto-ethnography of borders; Low, S. (2004). Behind the gates: Life, security, and the pursuit of happiness in fortress America; Pelkmans, M. (2006). Defending the border: identity, religion, and modernity in the Republic of Georgia; Reeves, M. (2014). Border work: spatial lives of the state in rural Central Asia.
Take-home assessment (100%) in the MT. The take home exam will be held the week following the end of the MT.