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We are living in a time of global migration. Why do people migrate? What is the role of migrant labor? How does migration change a receiving society like Taiwan? What are the problems or struggles that migrants are facing? In this course, we answer the above question and understand the global problems surrounding migration through ten keywords: media, migrant workers, border, broker, refugee, gender and marriage, racism and discrimination, destination, identity, migrant placemaking, nostalgia, and migrant mothers. This semester we will focus on the theme of migrant food culture, and through several workshops, we will have a better understanding of the interactive relationship between migrants and food culture. Moreover, this course collaborates with the “Inclusive Innovation” University Social Responsibility (USR) project. Through field visit, workshop, social practice and final exhibition, this course guides students to understand the immigrant society they live in and to fulfill the social responsibilities of teachers and students.
我們身處於國際遷移與流動的年代，「移民與文化的十個關鍵字」課程將透過十個關鍵字，讓學生能夠了解圍繞著移民現象所衍生的問題，包括：人們為何遷移？移民會面對哪些困難和挑戰？移工在社會中扮演何種角色？新移民與移工如何改變台灣社會？這些關鍵字包括邊界、中介、難民、性別與婚姻、種族歧視、遷移的目的地、認同、移民空間、鄉愁、母職。這學期我們將圍繞在移民飲食文化的主題，透過數個工作坊，更加了解移民與飲食文化的互動關係。透過參訪、工作坊、社會實踐與期末展覽，本課程引導學生認識身處的移民社會，從大學生的知識和能力建構出發，善盡師生之社會責任
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| 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 |
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Course Schedule:
The course content is arranged for the full 18-week semester. Each week contains one section for three hours.
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
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1 |
9/13 |
Course Overview |
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2 |
9/20 |
Migration and Food [self learning, no class] |
|
3 |
9/27 |
Destination |
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4 |
10/4 |
Fieldtrip - gardening workshop |
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5 |
10/11 |
Vietnamese Immigrant Garden |
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6 |
10/18 |
Migrant Labor & Broker |
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7 |
10/25 |
Placemaking |
|
8 |
11/1 |
Fieldtrip - five-sense workshop |
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9 |
11/8 |
Proposal preparation [Midterm week, no class] |
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10 |
11/15 |
Border/State and Racism |
|
11 |
11/22 |
Motherhood |
|
12 |
11/29 |
Writing food workshop |
|
13 |
12/6 |
How to interview migrants |
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14 |
12/13 |
Migrant materiality |
|
15 |
12/20 |
Media and identity |
|
16 |
12/27 |
Exhibition rehearsal |
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17 |
1/3 |
Public Exhibition |
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18 |
1/10 |
Wrap up |
Course Outline:
9/13 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
9/20 Week 2: Migration and Food [self learning, no class]
Clarissa Wei, 2023. Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation.
[Tasting migrant food assignment]
9/27 Week 3: 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: 105–123.
10/4 Week 4: Fieldtrip
Location: Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Vietnamese Immigrating Garden - A Silent Process : Tuan Mami Solo Exhibition
[worksheet due in class]
10/11 Week 5: Vietnamese Immigrant Garden
Huang Chien-Hung (Director of KdMoFA), “A Secret Process : Discovering Dis-paracolonizer from the ‘Vietnamese Immigrating Garden’”
10/18 Week 6: Migrant Labor & Broker
[Film screening: Ginoong Taiwan] open to the public
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.
"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.
Stalker, Peter. 2008. Chapter 2, No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. 2nd ed. No-Nonsense Guides. Oxford: New Internationalist.
10/25 Week 7: Placemaking
Simsek-Caglar, Ayse, and Nina Glick Schiller. Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2018.
[fieldtrip preparation]
11/1 Week 8: Field trip
Location TBD
[Five-sense worksheet due in class]
Guest lecturer: My 陳婉湄
My (pronounced like “May”) is an American who has been living in Taiwan for almost 2 years now. She was born and raised in Vietnam til she was 10 then immigrated to the US with her family. She loves food, learning about different cooking techniques, and identifying edible plants in the wild.
11/8 Week 9: Proposal preparation [Midterm week, no class]
[Exhibition proposal due on moodle]
11/15 Week 10: Border/State and Racism
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:
Genova, Nicholas De, ed. 2017. The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering. Durham: Duke University Press Books.
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.
[Board game: Migrant Workers’ Life]
[Film screening: The Lucky Women]
11/22 Week 11: 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.
[Film screening: Mimi’s Utopia]
11/29 Week 12: Writing food workshop
Not Just Love Stories
https://notjustlovestories.collective.tw/index.php/en/co-writing
[Writing food worksheet due in class]
12/6 Week 13: 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.
12/13 Week 14: Migrant 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.
Supplementary readings:
Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. California Series in Public Anthropology 28. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12/20 Week 15: Media and identity
Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants
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.
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.
12/27 Week 16: Exhibition rehearsal
2025/1/3 Week 17: Exhibition
USR project exhibition
https://nccu-immigrants-digital-marketing.weebly.com/exhibition.html
2025/1/10 Week 18: Wrap up
Weekly Participation 40 pts.
Social practice 25 pts
Final exhibition 35 pts.
Class policy: Limited use of AI tools
You will be informed as to when, where, and how AI tools are permitted to be used. You need to cite when and how you use the tool.
| 書名 Book Title | 作者 Author | 出版年 Publish Year | 出版者 Publisher | ISBN | 館藏來源* | 備註 Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation | Clarissa Wei | 2023 | S&S/Simon Element | 1982198974 | 圖書館處理 | https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982198974/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 |
Inclusive Innovation USR Project https://nccu-immigrants-digital-marketing.weebly.com/