Course Schedule: 

The course content is arranged for the full 18-week semester. Each week contains one section for three hours. 

1 Course Overview 

2 Migration and media [Guest lecture: Prof. Hsiao-Chuan Hsia and Ms. Esther Chow ]

3 No class. Mid-autumn festival. 

4 Migrant Labor  [Board game: migrant workers’ life]

5 Broker 

6 Placemaking 

7 Sunday 10/22 Fieldtrip (1) Taipei main station / Little Indonesia

8 Border and State 

9 Racism [Guest lecture: Ms. Ibby Han]

10 No class. Proposal preparation [Assignment due: exhibition proposal]

11 Destination

12 Fieldtrip (2) Taipei Radio Station 

13 Undocumented Immigrants [Guest lecture: Prof. Michelle Kuo]

14 How to interview migrants

15 Migrant motherhood

16 Identity [Guest lecture: Ms. Sally Sung]

17 Public Exhibition 

18 Wrap up

Course Outline:

9/15 Week 1: Course Overview 

Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 1, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.

https://nomanisanis.land/port-of-lies-review/

https://one-forty.org/tw/project/voice-of-migrant

9/22 Week 2: Migration and media 

Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Chapter five, “Cinderella with a Mobile Phone” in Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Guest lecture: Prof. Hsiao-Chuan Hsia and Ms. Esther Chow 

 ＊Teaching practice research: focus group (1)

9/29  Week 3: No class. Mid-autumn festival.

10/6 Week 4: Migrant Labor

Tseng, Yen-fen, and Hong-zen Wang. 2013. “Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan.” International Migration 51 (4): 1–19.

Supplementary readings:

Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 2, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.

[Board game: migrant workers’ life] 

10/13 Week 5: Broker

"A Guard's story" and "The Military and Security Industry: Promoting Europe's Refugee Regime" in Holmes, Seth. 2020. Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry. Edited by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine. None edition. Oakland: PM Press.

Supplementary reading:

Henley, J. W. Migrante. S.l., 2020.

[Film Screening: Goodbye Loveable Strangers]

10/20 Week 6: Placemaking 

Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, and Nina Glick Schiller. Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2018.

10/22 Week 7 (Sunday): Field trip (1) 

Taipei main station/Little Indonesia 

[fieldwork worksheet due in class]

[10/27 No class.]

11/3 Week 8: Border/State

Kivisto, Peter, and Thomas Faist. 2010. Chapter 7&8. Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration. Sociology for a New Century Series. Los Angeles: Pine Forge Press.

Supplementary readings:

Genova, Nicholas De, ed. 2017. The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Durham: Duke University Press Books.

[Film screening: The Lucky Women]

11/10 Week 9: Racism [Midterm week]

 [Guest lecture: Ms. Ibby Han]

Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Chapter 4. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Supplementary readings:

Kung, I-chun, and Hong-zen Wang. 2006. “Socially Constructed Ethnic Division of Labour: Labour Control in Taiwanese-Owned Firms in Malaysia and Vietnam.” International Sociology 21 (4): 580–601. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580906065302.

11/17 Week 10: Proposal preparation

No class. [Assignment due on Moodle: exhibition proposal]

11/24 Week 11: Destination

Bélanger, Danièle, and Hong-zen Wang. 2013. “Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia.” Pacific Affairs 86 (1): 31–50.

Supplementary readings:

Wu, Kun-Lu, and I.-Chun Kung. 2016. “South Helps South; A Bridge between Oceans: The Role of Southeast Asian Migrant Workers and Marriage Immigrants in the New Southbound Policy.” Prospect Journal, no. 16: 105–23.

12/1 Week 12: Fieldtrip (2)

Taipei radio station

[fieldwork worksheet due in class]

12/8 Week 13: Undocumented Immigrants 

Guest lecture: Prof. Michelle Kuo

Leon, Jason De, and Michael Wells. 2015. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. First edition. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

Supplementary readings:

Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. California Series in Public Anthropology 28. Berkeley: University of California Press.

12/15 Week 14: How to interview migrants

Fouratt, Caitlin E. “Telling Migration Stories: Course Connections and Building Classroom Community.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 3, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146868.

Supplementary readings:

Guzmán, Jennifer R., Melanie A. Medeiros, and Gwendolyn Faulkner. “Teaching Im/Migration through an Ethnographic Portrait Project.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 3, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146968.

 ＊Teaching practice research: focus group (2)

12/22 Week 15: Motherhood

Constable, Nicole. 2014. Born out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Supplementary readings:

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. “Mothering from a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families.” Feminist Studies 27 (2): 361–90.

12/29 Week 16: Identity

Guest lecture: Ms. Sally Sung

Appadurai, Arjun. 2019. “Traumatic Exit, Identity Narratives, and the Ethics of Hospitality.” Television & New Media 20 (6): 558–65.

Supplementary reading:

Zavella, Patricia. 2011. I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants

1/5 Week 17: Public Exhibition

1/12 Week 18: Wrap up

Yu-Chen Lin 林妤甄

111254006@nccu.edu.tw

Course participation 30 pts. 

Social practice 25 pts.

Fieldtrip worksheet 10 pts.

Final exhibition 35 pts.

• Stalker, Peter. 2008. No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.


• Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. 


• 藍佩嘉，2008。《 跨國灰姑娘: 當東南亞幫傭遇上台灣新富家庭》。臺北市：行人出版。