2/21 Week 1: Introduction - Migration and Food: Your Story 

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


• Clarissa Wei, 2023. Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation.

Supplementary reading:

• Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan. The great exodus from China: Trauma, memory, and identity in modern Taiwan. Cambridge University Press, 2020.


• Pérez, Elizabeth. "Religion in the kitchen: Cooking, talking, and the making of Black Atlantic traditions." In Religion in the Kitchen. New York University Press, 2016.

[Migration & food assignment] 

2/28 Week 2: Memorial Day. No Class. 

3/7 Week 3: Five-Senses and Gardening Workshop 

Guest Lecturer: Ms. Dinh Thi Thu 丁氏秋老師

3/14 Week 4: Labor Migration 

• Silvey, Rachel, and Rhacel Parreñas. 2020. “Precarity Chains: Cycles of Domestic Worker Migration from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46 (16): 3457–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1592398.

Supplementary readings:

• Film: Goodbye, Lovable Strangers


• Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 3, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.


• 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.

[Board game: Migrant Workers’ Life] 

3/21 Week 5: Gendered Migration 

• Lan, Pei-Chia. "From reproductive assimilation to neoliberal multiculturalism: Framing and regulating immigrant mothers and children in Taiwan." Journal of Intercultural Studies 40, no. 3 (2019): 318-333.

Supplementary reading:

• Bélanger, Danièle, and Hong-zen Wang. 2012. “Transnationalism from below: Evidence from Vietnam-Taiwan Cross-Border Marriages.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 21 (3): 291–316.


• 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.


• Friedman, Sara. Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.

3/28 Week 6: How to interview migrants

Guest Lecture on “Migrants, Diaspora, and the Korean Impeachment Protests in Japan”

Dodom Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

• 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.


• Martínez, D. O. (2024). Capitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller. American Anthropologist.

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.


• Weiss, Robert Stuart. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: Toronto: New York: Free Press; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.

4/4 Week 7: National Holiday. No class.

4/11 Week 8: Writing food workshop - guest lecture 

Guest lecturers: Ms. Sally Sung

https://notjustlovestories.collective.tw/index.php/en/co-writing

[Writing food worksheet due in class]

Assignment due: interview report

4/17 Week 9: Border/State and Racism 

Guest lecturer: Ibby Han (Independent scholar, community organizer in Charlottesville, VA)

• Andersson, Ruben. "Time and the migrant other: European border controls and the temporal economics of illegality." American Anthropologist 116, no. 4 (2014): 795-809.


• 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.


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

Supplementary readings:

• Cheng, Isabelle (2020). Imagining a Tragedy in Cyberspace: Online Postings after the Death of an Undocumented Migrant Worker. https://taiwaninsight.org/2020/12/15/imagining-a-tragedy-in-cyberspace-online-postings-after-the-death-of-an-undocumented-migrant-worker/


•  “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.

 [Film: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep]

4/25 Week 10: Migrant Motherhood

 Film screening: 《飛機飛過的時候》When the plane passes by 

• 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.


• Lan, Pei-Chia. 2006. Chapter 5. “Cinderella with a Mobile Phone” in Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Assignment due: project proposal

5/2 Week 11: Migrant Placemaking

• Martin, Fran, John Nguyet Erni, and Audrey Yue. 2019. “(Im)Mobile Precarity in the Asia-Pacific.” Cultural Studies 33 (6): 895–914. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1660690.


• Ça ˘gla, Ay¸se, and Nina Glick Schiller. 2021. “Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants Within City-Making Processes.” Geographical Review. 111(2): 206–32

Supplementary reading:

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

5/9 Week 12: Fieldtrip 

TBD

5/16 Week 13: Materiality 

• 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.


• https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean 

Supplementary reading:

• Holmes, Seth M., and Jorge Ramirez-Lopez. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue. Vol. 27. Univ of California Press, 2023.

5/23 Week 14: Media and Identity + Exhibition Rehearsal 

• Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants


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


• 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.

Supplementary reading:

• Finding Home Project https://time.com/finding-home/


• Cenedese, M. (2018). ‘Finding home: a multimodal narrative of Syrian refugees’ everyday life’, entanglements, 1(2):89-96. https://entanglementsjournal.wordpress.com/finding-home-a-multimodal-narrative-of-syrian-refugees-everyday-life/

5/30 Week 15: Holiday. No Class. 

6/6 Week 16: Exhibition 

https://nccu-immigrants-digital-marketing.weebly.com/exhibition.html 

6/13 Week 17: Wrap up [No class]

李芸綺 113254007@nccu.edu.tw

Weekly Participation 25 pts.

• Weekly Attendance (15 pts.)


• Participation (10 pts.)

Interview project 20 pts

Social practice 20 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。