The summer school „Studies of Migration and Mobility in Europe” (MOBILE) organized within the framework of Erasmus Intensive Programmes – one of the Lifelong Learning Programmes (LLP) – and with the support of Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji (FRSE), Poland, will be bringing together students and researchers from eight European universities (see MOBILE Partners) representing several academic disciplines. We will spend two weeks on discussions of the various aspects of travelling: migration, diaspora, tourism, transnationalism etc. and on transcending disciplinary boundaries. We will be debating routes and roots – as James Clifford (1997) had put it - of contemporary mobile populations from the perspectives of sociology and discourse analysis, anthropology and tourism studies, demography and economics. We will put the newest concepts such as motility, transience and hyper-diversity under meticulous scrutiny. We will also be discussing what are the most efficient ways of studying mobilities.
Last but not least, the two weeks of the summer school are an opportunity to combine studies with leisure. In the informal atmosphere, we will exchange our personal experiences of being mobile in Europe and beyond. Hopefully, the summer school in the town of Sopot at Baltic Sea will be a rewarding experience for us all.
Programme aims:
The summer school “Studies of Migration and Mobility in Europe” aims at acquainting the students with the new trends, cross-disciplinary approaches and research methods for the study of mobility in Europe. It will address the topics as wide as transnationalism, racism, multiculturalism, post-accession migration, citizenship, diasporas, adaptation, migrants’ economic, social and cultural activities, migration narratives, leisure travel and tourism. It will tackle them from the perspectives of several disciplines such as anthropology, economy, sociology, demography, psychology and linguistics, in order to unravel the complexity of contemporary mobility. The school is aimed at crossing disciplinary boundaries and introducing problem oriented, broad comparative perspective on phenomena and processes of mobility. The school is addressed to MA and PhD students.
The school working programme will consist of lectures and seminars, but also will include a simulation and a round table. Importantly, the students’ sessions will run parallel to taught courses. During these sessions the students will have a chance to present and discuss their own research (or research proposals). The school will thus offer a unique opportunity for the students working on various aspects of mobility, tourism and migration to discuss their research projects with the renowned scholars and experienced researchers during the students sessions as well as during shared free time.
Learning outcomes:
The students will acquire the knowledge of several conceptual frameworks for the analysis of mobility and migration; they will acquire selected research skills for mobilities analysis; they will obtain the competencies of theoretical and methodological reflexivity especially with regard to the possibilities of disciplinary boundaries’ crossing; last but not least, the students will develop their skills of presenting own research and building research proposals.
