COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MIGRATION AND WOMEN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6021 MIGRATION AND WOMEN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IKBAL SIBEL SAFI

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

This course will explore and seek to understand how a long history of neoliberal development and worsening global inequalities is linked to structurally determined realities as well as the material realities of race and women in the context of global migration. The course will examine contemporary trends in global migrations, with a historical understanding of how and why migrants move, as well as how modern nation-states have developed a precedent for inclusion and exclusion on the basis of who has the potential to 'belong' as a participant. The course is organized into key topics, using an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework, on nation-building, borders, categories of legal and illegal immigrants, the immigrant body, all attempting to construct an intellectual narrative (or guide map) in the context of inquiry. In the course, the approach of refugee law to women and the difficulties encountered in using the criterion of "belonging to a certain social group" in asylum applications, especially due to justified persecution of women, will be discussed. In the use of this criterion, persecution due to institutionalized social norms will be examined as the situation that causes the most case-law in asylum applications, universal legal rules, universal human rights issues and areas where law intersects at the point of cultural relativism will be discussed. Migration studies, ethnic studies of immigrant communities, and new debates on settled forms of work related to the history of migration and exclusion, postcolonial and post-structural gender equality are among the topics to be examined.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Identifying and linking to key themes outlined in the course syllabus and providing a critical interpretation of all classroom readings assigned to these themes
2   Understanding key methodological developments in the field of global migration and refugee studies and being able to reflect on historical migration trajectories and how they intersect with more recent forms of forced migration, diaspora and labor migration
3   Take a cross-cutting approach to the main themes of the course and understand how gendered experiences and interpretations of migration, both past and present, shape the ways we conceptualize the new refugee crisis
4   Identify how interdisciplinary qualitative work adds depth and context to a quantitative and numbers-based approach to understanding migration in the post-1945 period
5   Leveraging key concepts in migration theory and using them in an accurate and integrative way to explore how and why the refugee crisis is opening up new research areas on the gendering of migration routes and experiences globally
6   To be able to construct political rhetoric on the concept of 'refugee crisis'. To learn about Refugee Law and what justified persecution means. To learn what criteria International Law looks for in order for an asylum application to be successful and to understand the causes of case law in cases. To learn how cultural relativist and universal law rules affect women, to raise awareness about the language of law.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Migration and History: Transformations or Sudden Change in Time: Mass Migration and Historical Perspectives on Human Lives
2 Detecting Identity and Inequality: The Constitution of Identity: New nationality, citizenship, belonging and existence modes
3 Who is a refugee, who is a migrant: Definitions in refugee law
4 Asylum application: reasons, why women have to migrate, and the reasons of forced migration
5 Making definitions of refugee, conditional refugee and mass asylum within the framework of Law No. 6458
6 1951 Refugee protection under the Geneva Convention
7 What are the causes of persecution in the Refugee Convention and what are the justified reasons for persecution
8 Religion, nationality, race, political opinion and belonging to a particular social group criteria and women
9 Article 1F of the Geneva Convention, persons who are not eligible for refugee status
10 Reasons for ending the refugee status
11 Integration and its legal indicators and women
12 Reasons for asylum arising from women's social roles: Analysis of cultural relativist approaches and universal law rules, their role in asylum applications
13 The case law regarding to women's asylum applications and inconsistencies between court decisions
14 The case law regarding to women's asylum applications and inconsistencies between court decisions

Recomended or Required Reading

-Death by Culture: Accountability in International Law-Sibel Safi- LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing ( 2013) https://www.amazon.com.tr/Death-culture-Accountability-international-law/dp/3659467499

-Refugees and Gender: Law and Process-Heaven Crawley-RWLG-Jordans (2001) https://www.amazon.com/Refugees-Gender-Process-Heaven-Crawley/dp/0853086907

-Mülteci Hukuku- Sibel Safi-Legal yayınevi (2017) (https://www.legalkitabevi.com/sibel-safi/multeci-hukuku-.htm

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ikbalsibel.safi@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

wednesday
13.00-15.00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 45 45
Preparing presentations 1 26 26
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.13311
LO.2333
LO.334333
LO.411
LO.533433
LO.6332312

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