SYD 5235 | Population Mobility

Course Information  Course Hours: Mondays 9:30 AM to 12:00 Noon  Course Meeting Location: (Distance Learning Course)  Credit Hours: 3 hours  Prerequisites: None Course Description This graduate seminar concerns spatial mobility within and among human populations, including urbanization and other internal migration as well as international migration. This seminar reviews theories to explain population mobility and also explores consequences of such movements for other features of social organization and change. Original independent research is required as part of the course.

Course Instructor Elwood Carlson Charles Nam Professor in Sociology of Population Email: [email protected] Office: 609 Bellamy Building Office Hours: Weekdays 8-9:00AM Emails will be responded to within 24 to 48 hours. Learning Objectives At the end of the course, students will be able to: * Summarize conceptual frameworks for explaining population mobility; * Evaluate empirical work to explain population movement; * Document the effects of migration on sending and receiving communities, and on migrants themselves; * Design and conduct original research on specific aspects of population mobility. Student Responsibilities Class attendance and participation. This class will meet virtually on-line, but synchronously-- meaning everyone must sign in at the regularly posted course meeting time, just as for a face-to- face class. Your participation should be aimed toward a better group understanding of the materials and not towards showing that you know more or work harder than everyone else. Monitor your participation relative to others. Engage with your peers; don’t dominate them and don’t let them render you voiceless. If you must miss a class, please contact me—in advance of class, if possible. Since we only meet once each week, you may NOT miss more than two weekly meetings and still get graduate credit for this course. If you think you will be absent more than twice, you should not take this course.

Lead the discussion: During our first class meeting, you will sign up to be discussion leader for selected readings. We will establish an alphabetical rotation of class participants, and this rotation will cycle through readings assigned below. Weekly discussion leaders: For weeks when you are a discussion leader, you will compose at least three discussion questions based on your assigned article (up to 3 points each time). These questions must be completed and posted on Canvas no later than FRIDAY at 5 PM of the week before we meet to discuss the article. This will give all students in the class time to use your discussion questions as a guide to reading the article. Discussion questions submitted late earn ZERO points for that week. It is CRUCIAL that you encourage class discussion of the assigned reading based on your submitted study questions—do not "lecture" the class about the assigned reading, but draw them into the discussion (up to 5 points based on your in-class performance each time). We will construct no "shadow syllabus" in this course. Instead, each student will focus for the entire semester on in-depth exploration of a specific chosen topic in the field, as demonstrated by the semester paper. Weekly written essays: Every week at the end of class, the Instructor will select three of the submitted discussion questions. These selected questions will be posted on Canvas as an Assignment for that week. Each class participant will submit a written essay through the Canvas Assignment feature, including responses to all three selected questions (up to 3 points per question each week), due before the next class meeting. Late submissions incur -3 points per day penalty per weekly assignment. Writing the essay will demonstrate your mastery of the material in the readings for that week. Original Research Paper: You will complete a 12-20 page course paper that addresses a topic in population mobility. You will meet regularly with the instructor to discuss your ideas and progress (see Assignment items in every other course Module). For writing help, visit the Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) Tutoring Services’ comprehensive list of tutoring options at http://ace.fsu.edu/tutoring (Links to an external site.) or contact [email protected]. High- quality tutoring is available by appointment and on a walk-in basis. Research papers consist of an introduction to your research question and its sociological importance (no more than 1 page), a review of existing literature that clarifies the state of our knowledge and important current unresolved questions about your chosen subject (3-6 pages), research hypotheses based on the existing literature that you reviewed (1-2 pages), description of a data source and appropriate analytic methodology (2-3 pages), findings from your original research (3-6 pages) and a summary discussion and conclusion (1-2 pages). The instructor will make every effort to assist you to focus on on suitable research question and to find data suitable for original research based on your hypotheses, with the ideal result being a paper suitable for conference presentation and/or journal publication. Grading Policy You must earn at least 75% of the total possible points in order to pass with a grade of B and 87% or more of the possible points for a grade of A in this seminar. Less than 75% of the total possible points will result in a grade of C, which is a failing grade at the graduate level. Technology Requirements Course content is accessible through Canvas. Students will need to be able to write and upload assignments, post discussion questions, and take assessments. Students should have access to high-speed internet and updated software. Mobile devices may be used to view course content, upload assignments, and take assessments as determined by the instructor. To view the most current technology requirements, visit the FSU Canvas support site (Links to an external site.). Canvas Support Need help with Canvas? Contact FSU Canvas Support: Email: [email protected] Phone: (850) 644-8004 Website: distance.fsu.edu/canvas (Links to an external site.) Hours: 8am to 5pm, Monday - Friday University Policies University Attendance Policy Excused absences include documented illness, deaths in the family and other documented crises, call to active military duty or jury duty, religious holy days, and official University activities. These absences will be accommodated in a way that does not arbitrarily penalize students who have a valid excuse. Consideration will also be given to students whose dependent children experience serious illness. Academic Honor Policy The Florida State University Academic Honor Policy outlines the University's expectations for the integrity of students' academic work, the procedures for resolving alleged violations of those expectations, and the rights and responsibilities of students and faculty members throughout the process. Students are responsible for reading the Academic Honor Policy and for living up to their pledge to "...be honest and truthful and... 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Course Summary Module 1: Foundational Theories of Migration Ernst Georg Ravenstein. 1889. The laws of migration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 52(2): 241-305. Samuel Stouffer. 1940. Intervening opportunities: a theory relating mobility and distance. American Sociological Review 5(6): 845-67. George Kingsley Zipf. 1946. The P 1 P 2/D hypothesis: on the intercity movement of persons. American Sociological Review 11(6): 677-686. William Petersen. 1958. A general typology of migration. American Sociological Review 23(3): 256-66. Everett S. Lee. 1966. A theory of migration. Demography 47-57. Wilbur Zelinsky. 1971. The hypothesis of the mobility transition. Geographical Review 61: 219- 49.

Module 2: The Migration Experience Robert Park. 1928. Human migration and the marginal man. American Journal of Sociology 33(6): 881-93. Monica Boyd. 1989. Family and personal networks in international migration: recent developments and new agendas. International Migration Review 23(3): 638-64. Audrey Singer & Douglas Massey. 1998. The social process of undocumented border crossing among Mexican migrants. International Migration Review 32(3): 561-592. Yaohui Zhao. 1999. Leaving the countryside: rural-to-urban migration decisions in China. American Economic Review 89(2): 281-286. Herbert Klein et al. 2001. Transoceanic mortality: the slave trade in comparative perspective. William & Mary Quarterly 58(1): 93-118.

Module 3: Regional Internal Migration William Collins. 1997. When the tide turned: immigration and the delay of the Great Black Migration. Journal of Economic History 57(3): 607-32. Karen Clay & Randall Jones. 2008. Migrating to riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush. Journal of Economic History 68(4): 997-1027. Larry Hunt, Matthew Hunt & William Falk. 2008. Who is headed South? U.S. migration trends in black and white, 1970-2000. Social Forces 87(1): 95-119. Myron Guttmann et al. 2016. Migration in the 1930s: beyond the Dust Bowl. Social Science History 40: 707-40. Matthew Hauer et al. 2020. Sea level rise and human migration. Nature Reviews: Earth & Environment 1: 28-39

Module 4: Migration as a Factor in Urbanization Warren Thompson & Pascal Whelpton. 1940. Changes in regional and urban patterns of population growth. American Sociological Review 5(6): 921-9. Kingsley Davis. 1955. The origin and growth of urbanization in the world. American Journal of Sociology 60: 429-37. Samuel Preston. 1979. Urban growth in developing countries: a demographic reappraisal. Population and Development Review 4(2): 195-225. Jeffrey Williamson. 1988. Migrant selectivity, urbanization, and industrial revolutions. Population and Development Review 14(2): 287-314. Halil Tas & Dale Lightfoot. 2006. Gecekondu settlements in Turkey: rural-urban migration in the developing European periphery. Journal of Geography 104(6): 263-71.

Module 5: Economic Integration of Migrants Alejandro Portes & Min Zhou. 1992. Gaining the upper hand: economic mobility among immigrant and domestic minorities. Ethnic and Racial Studies 15(4): 491-522. Cindy Fan. 2002. The elite, the natives, and the outsiders: migration and labor market segmentation in urban China. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(1):103- 124. Frank van Tubergen, Ineke Maas, Henk Flap. 2004. The economic incorporation of immigrants in 18 Western societies: origin, destination, and community effects. American Sociological Review 69(5): 704-727. Frank Bean, Susan Brown & Ruben Rumbaut. 2006. Mexican immigrant political and economic incorporation. Perspectives on Politics 4(2): 309-13. George Borjas. 2006. Making it in America: social mobility in the immigrant population. The Future of Children 16(2): 55-71.

Module 6: Macroeconomic Aspects of Migration Eric Oded Stark & David Bloom. 1985. The new economics of labor migration. American Economic Review 75: 173-178. Eric Rothman & Thomas Espenshade. 1992. Fiscal impacts of immigration to the United States. Population Index 58(3): 381-415. Timothy Hatton & Jeffrey Williamson. 1992. What drove the mass migrations from Europe in the late nineteenth century? National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Paper No. 43. Skeldon, Ronald. 2008. International migration as a tool in development policy: a passing phase? Population and Development Review 34: 1-18. Layna Mosley & David Singer. 2015. Migration, labor, and the international political economy. Annual Review of Political Science 18: 283-301.

Module 7: Acculturation by Migrants John Berry. 1992. Acculturation and adaptation in a new society. International Migration 30(1): 69-85. Richard Alba. 2005. Bright vs. blurred boundaries: Second-generation assimilation and exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States. Ethnic and Racial Studies 28(1): 20-49. Irene Bloemraad. 2006. Becoming a citizen in the United States and Canada: structured mobilization and immigrant political incorporation. Social Forces 85(2): 667-695. Reuben Rumbaut, Douglas Massey & Frank Bean. 2006. Linguistic life expectancies: language retention in Southern California. Population and Development Review 32(3): 447-60. Elwood Carlson & Abdurrahim Güler. 2018. Cultural involvement and preference in immigrant acculturation. Journal of International Migration and Integration 74(3): 119-128.

Module 8: Return Migration and Transnationalism Amelie Constant & Douglas Massey. 2002. Return migration by German guest workers: neoclassical versus new economic theories. International Migration 40(4): 5-38. Margarita Mooney. 2003. Migrants' social ties in the US and investment in Mexico. Social Forces 81(4):1147-70. Ruud Koopmans & Paul Statham. 1999. Challenging the liberal national-state? Postnationalism, multiculturalism, and the collective claims making of migrants and ethnic minorities in Britain and Germany. American Journal of Sociology 105(3): 652-696. Silvia Zamora. 2016. Racial remittances: the effect of migration on racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4): 466-481. Emilio A. Parrado & Edith Y. Gutierrez. 2016. The changing nature of return migration to Mexico, 1990–2010: implications for labor market incorporation and development. Sociology of Development 2(2): 93-118.

Module 9: Migrants and Ethnicity Michael Hout & Joshua Goldstein. 1994. How 4.5 million Irish immigrants became 40 million Irish Americans. American Sociological Review 59(1): 64-82. Rogers Brubaker. 1998.Migrations of ethnic unmixing in the new Europe. International Migration Review 32(4): 1047-65. Tomás Jiménez. 2008. Mexican immigrant replenishment and the continuing significance of ethnicity and race. American Journal of Sociology 113(6): 1527-67. Richard Alba & Tariqul Islam. 2009. The case of the disappearing Mexican Americans: an ethnic-identity mystery. Population Research and Policy Review 28 (2), 109–121. Amon Emeka & Jody Agius Vallejo. 2011. Non-Hispanics with Latin American ancestry: assimilation, race, and identity among Latin American descendants in the United States. Social Science Research 40(6): 1547-63.

Module 10: Sociocultural Responses to Migrants Aristide Zolberg & Long Litt Woon. 1999. Why Islam is like Spanish: Cultural incorporation in Europe and the United States. Politics & Society 27(1): 5-38. Jonathan Crush & Sujata Ramachandran. 2010. Xenophobia, international migration and development. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11(2): 209-228. Magdalena Lesinska. 2014. The European backlash against immigration and multiculturalism. Journal of Sociology 50(1): 37-50. Judith Goldstein & Margaret Peters 2014. Nativism or economic threat: attitudes toward immigrants during the Great Recession. International Interactions 40(3): 376–401. Margaret Peters. 2015. Open trade, closed borders: immigration in the era of globalization. World Politics 67(1): 114-54.

Module 11: Demographic Impact of Migration Adam McKeown. 2004. Global migration, 1846-1940. Journal of World History 15(2): 155- 189. David Coleman. 2008. The demographic effects of international migration in Europe. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 24(3): 452-76. Nico van Nimwegen & Rob van der Erf. 2010. Europe at the crossroads: demographic challenges and international migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(9): 1359-79. Philippe Fargues. 2011. International migration and the demographic transition: a two-way interaction. International Migration Review 45(3): 588-614. Guy Abel & Nikola Sander. 2014. Quantifying global international migration flows. Science 343(6178): 1520-1522.

Module 12: Politics and Policies of Migration Control S. I. Abumere. 1981. Population distribution policies and measures in Africa south of the Sahara: a review. Population and Development Review 7: 421-433. Cynthia Buckley. 1995. The myth of managed migration: migration control and market in the Soviet period. Slavic Review 54(4):896-916. Douglas Massey. 1999. International migration at the dawn of the twenty-first century: the role of the state. Population and Development Review 25: 303-322. David Fitzgerald. 2006. Inside the sending state: the politics of Mexican emigration control. International Migration Review 40: 259-293. Douglas Massey & Karen Pren. 2012. Unintended consequences of U.S. immigration policy: explaining the post-1965 surge from Latin America. Population and Development Review 38(1): 1 – 29.

Module 13: Forced/Impelled Migration Aristide Zolberg. 1983. The formation of new states as a refugee-generating process. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 467: 24-38. Patrick Manning. 1990. The slave trade: the formal demography of a global system. Social Science History 14(2): 255-79. Xueguang Zhou and Liren Hou. 1999. Children of the Cultural Revolution. American Sociological Review 64(1): 12-36. Ewa Morawska. 2000. Intended and unintended consequences of forced migrations: a neglected aspect of east Europe's twentieth century history. International Migration Review 34(4): 1049- 1087. Eric Neumayer. 2004. Asylum destination choice: what makes some west European countries more attractive than others? European Union Politics 5(2): 155-80.

Module 14: Attempted Theoretical Syntheses William McNeill. 1984. Human migration in historical perspective. Population and Development Review 10(1): 1-18. Michael Greenwood. 1985. Human migration: theory, models, and empirical studies. Journal of Regional Science 25: 521-44. Kingsley Davis. 1988. Social science approaches to international migration. Population & Development Review 14(Supplement): S245-S261. Douglas Massey et al. 1993. Theories of international migration: a review and appraisal. Population and Development Review 19(3): 431–66. Alejandro Portes. 1997. Immigration theory for a new century. International Migration Review 31(4): 799-825. Russell King & Ronald Skeldon. 2010. 'Mind the Gap!' Integrating approaches to internal and international migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(10): 1619-46.