PSC 414 - Syllabus

The process of European economic recovery and integration after WWII was accompanied by the recruitment of foreign workers from Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, and the Maghreb region. Decades later, this migration has transformed nations and profoundly affected the social and political discourse. Immigration has simultaneously enriched host societies and caused xenophobic responses strengthening right-wing parties and those claiming an imminent demise of the French, German, or Dutch national cultures. The seminar will offer a comparison of immigrant experiences in these three European nations, focused on how history has shaped particular patterns of immigration to these nations as well as the policies designed to facilitate the integration of those new citizens.

Questions guiding this seminar:
1. What are the dominant immigration patterns in post-Word War II Europe?
2. What explains variation in integration success across different immigrant communities settling in European nations?
3. What explains differences and change in the integration policies adopted by European nations?
4. In what ways are Muslim migrants treated differently by European host societies?

Required reading: Reader 'PSC 414, European Identity Seminar, Spring 2012'
Suggested reading: Buruma, Ian (2006) Murder in Amsterdam. The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Penguin Press.

	Schedule
Day 1	Tuesday, January 3
	Arrival in Paris
	7:50am Flight arrives in Paris (Delta #184, escort from New York: Professor Hans Peter Schmitz) Arrive at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Met by Professors Bach and Marxer Load luggage for Strasbourg on second bus Check into: FIAP Jean Monnet; 30 rue Cabanis; 75014 PARIS (Tel: - 33 - 1 - 43 13 17 00) Nearest metro stop: Glacière Lunch on your own at FIAP (from 11.45am to 1.45pm). 2-4pm: Orientation meeting (at FIAP: room TBA) General Orientation (Professor Bach) and Course orientation (Professor Schmitz) 4:15 p.m. Bus departs for Boat tour on the Seine Dinner at the FIAP (6.30 to 8.30pm)
Readings for January 4	Paxton, Robert O. 2009. Can You Really Become French? The New York Review of Books 56 (6).
Day 2	Wednesday, January 4
	Paris - Memory and the Representation of Immigration
	9am: Bus leaves for Les Jardins du Luxembourg Walk through gardens to the Le Panthéon and adjacent Church of St. Etienne du Mont -- Official Memory, History and National Identity Noon: Walk to La Grande Mosquée de Paris for Group lunch 2.20pm: Visit to Mémorial de la Shoah A guided visit to the Memorial and Museum, which commemorate the persecution and deportation for France’s Jewish population during the Nazi Occupation; 17 Rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier 5pm: Return to FIAP or walk to Notre-Dame Dinner at the FIAP (6.30 to 8.30pm), evening on your own
Reading for January 5	1. Soros, George. 2008. The plight of the Roma, Project Syndicate, link here. 2. Loch, Dietmar. 2009. Youth of Immigrant Descent in French Suburbs. Grenoble: Université Pierre Mendès France/Grenoble II.
Day 3	Thursday, January 5
	Paris - French National Identity
	9.15am Departure by bus 10am: La Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l'Immigration (CNHI); Palais de la Porte Dorée (293 avenue Daumesnil) Lunch on your own 2pm: Visit and Lecture at the Think tank Institute Montagne; 38 rue Jean Mermoz Dr. Leyla Arslan: Citizenship and Identity in the Banlieues 4-5.30pm: Lecture on Racial Profiling in France; Lanna Hollo, Open Society Foundations; FIAP (Room: TBA) Dinner at the FIAP (6.30 to 8.30pm), evening on your own
Reading for January 6	Schain, Martin A. 2010. Managing difference: immigrant integration policy in France, Britain, and the United States. Social Research 77 (1), 205-236.
Day 4	Friday, January 6
	Versailles: History and Identity
	9am: Bus leaves for Versailles : National Symbols, National Identity Visit the Château de Versailles; Gardens (weather permitting); Petit and Grand Trianon; "National Symbols, National Identity and the Centralized State" 2pm: Return to Paris 3pm: From France to Holland: Review of readings and lectures on immigration and integration in Europe, Prof. Hans Peter Schmitz, FIAP (Room: TBA) Dinner at the FIAP (6.30 to 8.30pm), evening on your own
Reading for January 7	Duyvendak, Jan Willem, Trees Pels, and Rally Rijkschroeff 2009. "A Multicultural Paradise? The Cultural Factor in Dutch Integration Policy." In Political Incorporation of Migrants, ed. J. Hochschild and J. Mollenkopf. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 129-39.
	Deadline to declare pass/fail option for this course
Day 5	Saturday, January 7
	Paris to Amsterdam
	8.00am: Loading luggage on bus/depart Paris for Amsterdam On bus: Review session on readings, Paris experience, and Dutch immigration/integration policies (Hans Peter Schmitz) Arrival and check in: HOTEL NOVA Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 276, 1012 RS Amsterdam Tel: (31) 20 623 00 66; Fax: (31) 20 627 20 26 Dinner and evening on your own
Reading for January 8	Michalowski, Ines 2005. What Is The Dutch Integration Model, And Has It Failed? Focus Migration Policy Brief No. 1, Bonn.
Day 6	Sunday, January 8
	Amsterdam: Holland's Colonial Past
	9.20am: leave for the Tropenmuseum (tram line 14) Linnaeusstraat 2 10am: Eastward Bound -- Dutch East Indies, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Suriname 11.30am: Group meeting and discussion Lunch on your own 2.45pm: Meet at the Rijksmuseum Guided tour: Holland as a Colonial Power Jan Luijkenstraat 1 7pm GROUP DINNER at the Café de Jaren Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22; Tel (020) 62 55 771
Readings for January 9	Odé, Arend. 2008. The Position of Migrants in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Regioplan.
Day 7	Monday, January 9
	Amsterdam: Integration Challenges
	Morning: Students are encouraged to visit the Anne Frank House or the Amsterdam Historical Museum 10.40pm: leave for University of Amsterdam (on foot) 11am-1pm: Integration Policies in Holland; Professor Jeroen Doomernik; Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) Oudemannenhuispoort 4-6 (Room TBA), Oudezijds Achterburgwal 211-225. 2.50pm: "Between Laughter and Tears: 20 Years of North-African Migration to Holland", conversation with Fouad Laroui, novelist (Hotel Nova, breakfast room) 4pm: Depart for Tolhuistuin (Noord-Amsterdam) 5pm: Center for Multicultural Dialogue; presentation by artistic director Chris Keulemans Dinner and evening on your own
Readings for January 10	Goodman, Sara 2010. Integration requirements for Integration's Sake? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36 (5), 753-772.
Day 8	Tuesday, January 10
	Amsterdam to The Hague and Cologne
	8am: loading luggage and depart hotel Noon: Aachen; lunch on your own 2pm: guided tour of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Aachen Cathedral 4pm depart by bus for Cologne 6.00pm: Arrival in Cologne and check in: HOTEL FLANDRISCHER HOF Flandrische Strasse 3-11 50674 Cologne Tel ++49 221 2036-0; Fax ++49 221 2036-106 6.30pm-7.30pm (at hotel): What it takes to be German: Integration Issues in the post-Cold War Berlin Republic (Prof. Schmitz). Dinner and evening on your own
Readings for January 11	Moses, Jonathon W. 2011. “Migration in Europe.” In Europe Today edited by Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, 4^th ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 371-397.
Day 9	Wednesday, January 11
	Amsterdam to Cologne
	8.30am: depart by bus Forschungszentrum fuer Religion und Gesellschaft (forege); Rosenweg 4, 50858 Köln 9am: Professor Mark Chalîl Bodenstein; "Islam in Europe" Break 10.45am: Hasan Karaca; "Immigration and Integration experiences in Germany" Lunch at Keupstrasse 1pm: Visit to the Keupstrasse and Zentralmoschee Ehrenfeld Dinner on your own
Readings for January 12	Worbs, Susanne 2010. Integration in Plain Figures. Approaches to Integration Monitoring, Focus Migration Policy Brief No. 16, Bonn.
Day 10	Thursday, January 12
	Cologne
	9am: depart by bus Forschungszentrum fuer Religion und Gesellschaft (forege); Rosenweg 4, 50858 Köln Carolin Kubo and colleagues: Photo exhibit 'Every-day life in an industrial city' Lunch on your own Afternoon: free to prepare for exam and/or explore Cologne 5pm: Review session for final exam at hotel 6.30pm: depart by foot for 7pm: GROUP DINNER at restaurant 'Gaffel am Dom', Köln (Bahnhofsvorplatz 1; Tel: 49-221-91392616)
Day 11	Friday, January 14
	Cologne to Strasbourg
	8.30am Final exam at the hotel 10am: Leave Cologne for Strasbourg Academic Orientation Begins (on bus) 4pm: Approximate arrival in Strasbourg Met by Center staff, housing orientation Host families pick up students.
	Saturday, JANUARY 28, 2012: Final paper submitted by midnight via email.

European Identity Seminar: France, Holland, Germany (PSC 414)