LFU:online

Acquisition of basic skills for dealing with historic sources and presentations of Contemporary History as well as skills in presenting the newly acquired knowledge in oral or written form.

This introductory seminar deals with Austrian migration history by asking in how far they are telling stories about (state) violence. In the first sessions we will get acquainted with different theoretical and philosophical positions on the question of state violence, from positions legitimating state violence, to positions that are critical towards state violence in the context of transnational migration, to positions that understand state violence as only one expression of larger systems of inequality.
Possible topics: Asylum/flight, Austrian and European border regime, migration/guest worker regime, migration and social rights, deportation/forced return, detention, refugee camps, migrant resistance.
Students will be introduced to a number of writing skills and tools in the course of the seminar.

Presentations by lecturer, readings, discussions, exercises, oral presentation with handout, paper

Course with continuous performance assessment: attendance at all sessions, active participation, oral presentation, paper (10-12 pp.)

Positive assessment of compulsory module 1

Online-enrollment required, starting on Feb. 1st, 2019!