Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
The advanced undergraduate-level and undergraduate-level course will introduce and elaborate the crucial concepts, comparative policy analysis, and research findings (such as a systematic review) in transnational migration and care. Understanding the phenomena of international migration and care influences contemporary relations between individuals, families, communities, civil society groups, governments, and states (including sending and receiving countries). The course discusses issues related to the following:
To explore these above topics of migration, the classical and latest research published by major academic presses in recent years as well as reports from international organizations (such as International Labour Organization, ILO), will be examined carefully and critically to inquiry the complicated issues that migrant workers face with the lived experiences of those impacted by migration.
能力項目說明
This course requires class participants to critically read, comprehend, write, and engage with interdisciplinary scholarship in transnational migration studies. This class will be facilitated as a seminar, and participants are expected to take responsibility for creating a collaborative operative learning environment. Class participants are anticipated to engage thoughtfully, critically, and self-reflexively with course readings. Most of the classroom time is spent discussing every week’s reading of these textbooks and Journal articles. Thus, students are expected to obtain all the required books and complete all the assigned tasks before the class period in which they will be discussed. Leading discussions, class participation, and graded assignments are designed to encourage active, critical engagement with readings and other course materials. Class participants are also encouraged to observe and do fieldwork in practice related to migration and migrant workers’ issues. The Lecturer may use classroom time to engage students with documentary films, academic blogs, and popular media (such as YouTube), and guest speakers may also be invited to lecture to deepen our understanding of the issues in the assigned readings.
Learning Outcomes
Understand how international migration is changing contemporary forms of relationships (gender, kinship, and other forms of intimacy) and care as well as affected by the intersectionality of multiple policies/ regimes
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週次 Week |
課程主題 Topic |
課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment |
教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework |
學習投入時間 Student workload expectation |
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課堂講授 In-class Hours |
課程前後 Outside-of-class Hours |
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09/13 Introduction |
Overview of the related issues to transnational migration and care |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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2 |
09/20 Workshop Migration Theory I |
*Brettell & Hollifield (Eds.). (2015). Introduction & Ch.01-04
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Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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3 |
09/27 Migration Theory II |
*Brettell & Hollifield (Eds.). (2015). Ch.05-09 *Massey, D. S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A., & Taylor, J. E. (1993). Theories of international migration: A review and appraisal. Population and development review, 431-466. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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4 |
10-04 Migration Pattern
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Stepwise international migration *Paul, A. M. (2012). Stepwise international migration: A multi-stage migration pattern for the aspiring migrant. American Journal of Sociology 116(6):184286. Serial labor migration *Parreñas, R. S., Silvey, R., Hwang, M. C., & Choi, C. A. (2019). Serial labor migration: Precarity and itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers. International Migration Review, 53(4), 1230-1258.doi:10.1177/0197918318804769 *Da Roit, B., Gonzalez Ferrer, A., & Moreno-Fuentes, F. J. (2013). The Southern European migrant-based care model: long-term care and employment trajectories in Italy and Spain. European Societies, 15(4), 577-596. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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5 |
10/11 Observation |
Media & Website (content analysis), Church, Park, Shelter, Train station, and others |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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6 |
10/18 Guest Lecture The precariousness of migrant care workers |
*Bélanger, D., & Silvey, R. (2020). An Im/mobility turn: power geometries of care and migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(16), 3423-3440. *Silvey, R., & Parreñas, R. (2020). Precarity chains: Cycles of domestic worker migration from Southeast Asia to the Middle East. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(16), 3457-3471. *Van Bochove, M., & Zur Kleinsmiede, D. (2020). Broadening the scope of live‐in migrant care research: How care networks shape the experience of precarious work. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(1), 51-59. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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7 |
10/25 Varieties of Migrant Care Work |
*Kwak, Y.K.; Wang, M.S., 2022.12, Exclusion or Inclusion: National Differential Regulations of Migrant Workers’ Employment, Social Protection, and Migration Policies on Im/Mobilities in East Asia—Examples of South Korea and Taiwan, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.19, No.23, pp.16270. *Peng, I. 2017. Transnational Migration of Domestic and Care Workers in Asia Pacific. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Organization. *Van Hooren, F. J. (2012). Varieties of migrant care work: Comparing patterns of migrant labour in social care. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(2), 133-147. *Weicht, B. (2021). Individual Trajectories and Intersecting Regimes: Methodological Reflections on Researching Migrant Care Work. In the Global Old Age Care Industry (pp. 103-123). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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8 |
11/01 Care Regimes |
*Anderson, A. (2012). Europe’s care regimes and the role of migrant care workers within them. Journal of population aging, 5(2), 135-146. *Williams, F. (2012). Converging variations in migrant care work in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(4), 363-376. *Wang, M. S. & Chan, T. (2017). The intersections of the care regime and the migrant care worker policy: the example of Taiwan. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 27 (3-4), 195-210. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2017.1406822 |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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9 |
11/08 Fieldwork |
Hasan, S. I., Yee, A., Rinaldi, A., Azham, A. A., Mohd Hairi, F., & Amer Nordin, A. S. (2021). Prevalence of common mental health issues among migrant workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 16(12), e0260221. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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10 |
11/15 Care Work and Health_01 |
*World Health Organization. (2017). Women on the move: Migration, care work, and health. Retrieved from https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/259463/9789241513142-eng.pdf *Malhotra, R., Arambepola, C., Tarun, S., de Silva, V., Kishore, J., & Østbye, T. (2013). Health issues of female foreign domestic workers: a systematic review of the scientific and gray literature. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 19(4), 261-277. *Mucci, N., Traversini, V., Giorgi, G., Tommasi, E., De Sio, S., & Arcangeli, G. (2019). Migrant workers and psychological health: A systematic review. Sustainability, 12(1), 120. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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11 |
11/22 Care Work and Health_02 |
*Fisher, O. (2021). The impact of micro and macro level factors on the working and living conditions of migrant care workers in Italy and Israel—A scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 420. *Hennebry, J., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2019). Rebalancing act: promoting an international research agenda on women migrant care workers’ health and rights. A Research Agenda for Migration and Health, 88-106. *Hargreaves, S., Rustage, K., Nellums, L. B., McAlpine, A., Pocock, N., Devakumar, D., & Zimmerman, C. (2019). Occupational health outcomes among international migrant workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Global Health, 7(7), e872-e882. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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12 |
11/29 Individual Consults |
*Liang, L. F. (2021). Everyday vulnerability: work and health experiences of live-in migrant care workers in Taiwan. In The Global Old Age Care Industry (pp. 219-242). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. Liang, L. F. (2021). Managing work and care: does employing a live-in migrant care worker fill the gap? The example of Taiwan. Social Policy and Society, 1-13. Liang, L. F. (2011). The making of an ‘ideal’ live-in migrant care worker: recruiting, training, matching, and disciplining. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(11), 1815-1834. *Lan, P. C. (2016). Deferential surrogates and professional others: Recruitment and training of migrant care workers in Taiwan and Japan. Positions: East Asia Cultures critique, 24(1), 253-279. *Ogawa, R. (2019). Making migrant care workers in East Asia. In Routledge Handbook of East Asian gender studies (pp. 123-143). Routledge. Howe, A. L. (2009). Migrant care workers or migrants working in long-term care? A review of the Australian experience. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 21(4), 374-392. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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13 |
12/06 Abuse of migrant workers |
*Auwal, M. A. (2010). Ending the exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf. Fletcher F. World Aff., 34, 87. *Chuang, J. A. (2009). Achieving accountability for migrant domestic worker abuse. NCL Rev., 88, 1627. *Green, O., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Violations of workers’ rights and exposure to work-related abuse of live-in migrant and live-out local home care workers–a preliminary study: implications for health policy and practice. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 7(1), 1-11. *Shah, N. M., & Menon, I. (1997). Violence against women migrant workers: Issues, data, and partial solutions. Asian and pacific migration journal, 6(1), 5-30. Horn, V., & Schweppe, C. (2021). Elder Abuse in Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements. In the Global Old Age Care Industry (pp. 291-313). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. Sherry, V. N. (2004). Bad Dreams: Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia (Vol. 15). Human Rights Watch. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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14 |
12/13 Undocumented/unaccounted-for Migrant Workers |
*Bélanger, D., Ueno, K., Hong, K. T., & Ochiai, E. (2011). From foreign trainees to unauthorized workers: Vietnamese migrant workers in Japan. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 20(1), 31-53. *Triandafyllidou (2013) Ch.01 Irregular migration and domestic work in Europe. Who cares? * Gunawan, B. F. X., & Iskandar, K. (2022). The Illegal Network of Foreign Workers: The Missing Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan. Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(2), 8583-8595. Bonizzoni, P. (2013). Undocumented domestic workers in Italy: surviving and regularizing strategies. Irregular migrant domestic workers in Europe: who cares, 135-160. Gheasi, M., Nijkamp, P., & Rietveld, P. (2014). A study on undocumented migrant workers in the Dutch household sector. International Journal of Manpower. Y-K, Ywaka & Wang, M.S. (To be submitted). Exclusion or Inclusion: National differential regulations of migrant workers’ employment and migration policies in East Asia- Examples of South Korea and Taiwan. Unpublished. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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15 |
12/20 Left Behind & Stateless Children |
*Fellmeth, G., Rose-Clarke, K., Zhao, C., Busert, L. K., Zheng, Y., Massazza, A., ... & Devakumar, D. (2018). Health impacts of parental migration on left-behind children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet, 392(10164), 2567-2582. *Graham, E., Jordan, L. P., & Yeoh, B. S. (2015). Parental migration and the mental health of those who stay behind to care for children in South-East Asia. Social Science & Medicine, 132, 225-235. *Wang, M. S.; Lin, C.-H.*, 2023.01, Barriers to health and social services for unaccounted-for female migrant workers and their undocumented children with precarious status in Taiwan: An exploratory study of stakeholder perspectives, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.20, No.2, pp.956. |
Leading class, Lecture, Discussion |
3 |
9 |
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16 |
12/27 Presentation |
15-20 minutes presentation & 5-10 minutes of feedback |
15-20 slides |
3 |
9 |
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17 |
01/03 Presentation |
15-20 minutes presentation & 5-10 minutes of feedback |
15-20 slides |
3 |
9 |
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18 |
0110 Final paper |
Group Project (Turnitin Check) |
10-15 pages |
3 |
9 |
Course participation 15%
Observation report 15%
Leading class (article summary presentation) 30%
PPT presentation 20%
Final group project 20%
Brettell, C. B., & Hollifield, J. F. (Eds.). (2022). Migration theory: Talking across disciplines. Routledge.
Horn, V., Schweppe, C., Böcker, A., & Bruquetas-Callejo, M. (Eds.). (2021). The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping into Migrants for Tackling the Old Age Care Crisis. Springer Nature.