教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 9 週 Week 9	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work
	第 17 週 Week 17	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

Each week contains one section for three hours. 

 

 

2/23 Week 1: Introduction - your migration story

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

Supplementary reading:

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

3/1 Week 2: Labor Migration - “Migrant Workers’ Life” Board Game

• 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.

3/8 Week 3: Gendered Migration + Art Therapy (1)

Guest lecturer: Wei (Art therapist)

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

3/15 Week 4: Refugee 101 

Guest lecturer: Hu Chunyuan (Initiator, Refugee 101 Taiwan) 

Supplementary reading:

• “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.

3/22 Week 5: Refugees to and from Hong Kong 

Guest lecturer: Leslie Chan 陳嘉朗 (Former District Councilor of Yau Tsim Mong District Council, Hong Kong 前香港油尖旺區議會區議員)

Ms. Kristen Yeung (Social worker, Centre for Refugees, Christian Action)

• Refugees to Hong Kong and Christian Action:

New policy sparks fear among Hong Kong’s asylum seekers

https://youtu.be/Jy-COb0Ci64?si=xo0eVeVx6bEwteyx 

• Refugees from Hong Kong: 

Hong Kong asylum-seekers in the UK face fear and uncertainty | Radio Free Asia (RFA)

https://youtu.be/oO67jQaFpno?si=i-tvmvvmSq7EOegO

3/29 Week 6: 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.
• 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.

4/5 Week 7: National Holiday. No class.

Assignment due: interview report

4/12 Week 8: Taiwan's Hong Kong Asylum Mechanism 

Guest lecturer: Candia Tong (Vice Secretary General, Flow HK) 

4/19 Week 9: Midterm week. No Class.

Assignment due: project proposal

4/26 Week 10: 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.
• 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.

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.

5/3 Week 11: Fieldtrip 

TBD: ASEAN Square Taichung

5/10 Week 12: Materiality + Art therapy (2) 

Guest lecturer: Wei (Art therapist)

• 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.
• Film: The Lucky Women

5/17 Week 13: Racism 

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

Supplementary readings:

• Walia, Harsha. Introduction in Border and rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism. Haymarket Books, 2021.
• 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/
• Film: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

5/24 Week 14: Immigration Justice 

Guest lecturer: Prof. Michelle Kuo (Visiting professor, ICI NCCU & NTU )

5/31 Week 15: Multimodal Ethnography

• 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/

• Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants

6/6 [Thursday] Week 16: ICI joint presentation event

*The class of June 7th takes place on June 6th. 

6/14 Week 17: Wrap up [No class]