Sideri Eleni
Assistant Professor
Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies
Academic Area
Anthropology of Post-socialism with emphasis on the Caucasus and the Black Sea
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Titles
-2016. Βachelor in Film Studies. School of Fine Arts-AUTH. Specialisation: ScriptWriting
-2006. PhD in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.
-2002. Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.
-2000. Master of Arts in Language and Communication Sciences. Postgraduate Degree in French, German, Italian Philology and Mechanical and Computer Engineering-AUTH. Specialisation:: Sociolinguistics..
-1997. Postgraduate in Social Anthropology. School of Oriental and African Studies / University of London.
-1996. Bachelor in French Language and Literature, School of Philosophy-AUTH.
Research Interests
- Diasporas,
- transnational migration,
- forms of mobility & immobility,
- tourism,
- language and storytelling,
- visual anthropology / cinema and anthropology,
- new technologies and digital expression,
- cities and globalization,
- European cultural policies,
- post-socialist world,
- Black Sea,
- Caucasus
Teaching
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT AND SOCIAL THEORY
(ΒΣΑ302-ΙΙΙ)
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COMPULSORY
Department Abbreviation
BSO
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Course Outlines
COURSE OUTLINE
(1) GENERAL
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ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL STUDIES
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BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
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BSA302-III |
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Anthropological thought and Social Theory |
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Learning outcomes |
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The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described. Consult Appendix A
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General Competences |
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Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim? |
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Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Adapting to new situations Decision-making Working independently Team work Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas |
Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Respect for the natural environment Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking …… Others… ……. |
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Research, analysis and synthesis of data and information Exercise criticism and self-criticism Autonomous work Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
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Upon the completion of the course, the students will have come into contact with the basic concepts, definitions and fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology (kinship, economy, political organization, symbolic systems-religion, gender) and the type of holistic way of viewing societies between ethnographic present and historical past. They will have examined the main theoretical schools of the 20th and 21st centuries (American, British and French) which have defined anthropological thought (functionalism, post/structuralism, interpretive approach). Finally, the course will have introduced the students to the methodological peculiarities of ethnographic field research, the comparative method and the holistic anthropological understanding.
WEEKLY THEMES
1-2nd week CULTURE 3-4th week WRITING ABOUT THE OTHER 5-6th Week FAMILY 7th Week THE STATE AUTHORITY 8th Week SOCIAL CHANGE 9-10th Week THE CONCEPT OF INTERPRETATION 11th Week THE CONCEPT OF RESPONSIBILITY 12th Week. NEWER TRENDS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH Week 13 REVIEW-EXAM PREPARATION
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TEACHING METHODS The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail. Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.
The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS |
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Description of the evaluation procedure
Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other
Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students. |
The course is evaluated by written exams at the end of the semester. Exams are based on the pages listed in each week's Required Readings (see course site). The written exams contain different types of multiple-choice questions (multiple answers, YES/NO, etc.) but also very short development questions (max 5-6 sentences)
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(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Suggested bibliography: C.Javeau, Η Έρευνα με Ερωτηματολόγιο- Το Εγχειρίδιο του Καλού Ερευνητή, Αθήνα, Τυπωθήτω Γ.Δαρδανός, 1996 [ Βασικό βοήθημα για τις εργασίες σας]. . Γκ.Λίενχαρντ, Κοινωνική Ανθρωπολογία, Αθήνα, Gutenberg, 1985 ( Μετάφραση του κλασσικού εγχειριδίου κοινωνικής ανθρωπολογίας στα ελληνικά. Εισαγωγικό και κατατοπιστικό κείμενο). Α. Κούπερ, Ανθρωπολογία και Ανθρωπολόγοι. Η σύγχρονη βρετανική σχολή. Αθήνα, Καστανιώτη 1994. I.Craig, Σύγχρονη Κοινωνική Θεωρία. Από τον Parsons στον Habermas, μετάφραση- επιμ. Π.Λέκκας, Αθήνα, Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 1998.
- Relatedacademicjournals:
Σύγχρονα Θέματα, https://www.synchronathemata.gr/ Εθνολογία, https://www.societyforethnology.gr/en/ethnologyonline Anthropology Matters, https://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/issue/view/65 Society for Social Anthropology, https://culanth.org/
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- ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND DIASPORA COMMUNITIES IN SE EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST
(ΒΣΑ307-ΙΙΙ-2)
Type
ELECTIVE
Department Abbreviation
BSO
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Course Outlines
COURSE OUTLINE
(1) GENERAL
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SCHOOL |
Economics and Regional Studies |
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Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies |
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ΒΣΑ307-ΙΙΙ-2 |
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5th |
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Anthropology of Migration and Diaspora Communities in South-Eastern Europe and the Near East |
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The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described. Consult Appendix A
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1. Intellectual Skills of Synthesis and Analysis • Understanding the different aspects of migration, inclusion and exclusion in relation to anthropological methods and concepts • Synthesis and generative thinking based on the study of empirical data • Learning to formulate an argument based on the data of the bibliographic research 2. Research Skills • Development of capacities of flow and organization of sources • Structure of an academic text • Presentation skills using new technologies 3. Development of Research Technologies • Developing research digital skills • Deeper understanding and analysis of visual material
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Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim? |
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Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Adapting to new situations Decision-making Working independently Team work Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas |
Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Respect for the natural environment Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking …… Others… ……. |
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• Data research and analysis • Independent or group work • Respect for diversity and multiculturalism • Promotion of criticism and self-criticism • Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
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(3) SYLLABUS
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The course examines different forms of migration, transnational and economic migration, brain migration, gender migration, and compares them to other categories of movement and attitude such as refugee and diaspora. Different approaches to the study of migration will be studied (economic and historical approach network study, global south and migration). Different forms of diaspora are compared, such as historical and contemporary diasporas, diaspora as a double consciousness, the concept of diaspora, and LGBTI communities and online diasporas. Finally, the course will highlight different policies of integration, collective organization and artistic expression of immigrants or diasporas (eg literature of immigration, diasporic cinema, etc.). The ethnographic examples will concern migrants from/to the regions of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as the Near East.
The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the different categories of immigration as well as with the different immigrant communities and diasporas of Northern and South-Eastern Europe & the Near East. The examples of cross-cultural encounters, displacements and the management of the diasporic condition in the wider region of North Africa, SE Europe and the Near East constitute the field of observation of ethnographic and other factual data that allow students to deepen their knowledge in basic anthropological concepts and analytical categories taught in previous years about space and time, region, ethnicity, gender identity and types of community from modernity to the digital age
1st Week. Introduction 2nd Week. Methodology Issues 3rd Week Global Migrations and Diaspora (19th century - First half of the 20th century) 4th Week Transnational Migration and Diasporic Identities (2nd half-20th-21st) 5th Week. Economy and Immigration and the Economy of immigration B. Border-Integration 6th Week. Borders-Security—National/European Policies 7th Week Multiculturalism- Xenophobia and Racism 8th Week Marriages and Transnational Families 9th Week. The return migration 10th Week. New Forms of Inclusion-Movements C. Representation 11th - 12th Week. Migrations and Art. Literature, Museums and Cinema 13th Week. Recap |
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION
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TEACHING METHODS The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail. Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.
The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS |
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Description of the evaluation procedure
Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other
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(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Suggested bibliography: C. Brettell.2003. Anthropology and migration. Essays on transnationalism, ethnicity, and identity. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. Pp.9-23, 23-47. S. Castles& M.Miller (1998) The Age of Migration. International Population Movement , London/Hampshire: 67-104, 104-141. Koser, Khalid 2007. International Migration: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press 28-41. S. Vertovec& R. Cohen (eds) Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism, Cheltenham: Elgar Reference Collection Werbner, Pnina. "Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds." Social anthropology 7.1 (1999): 17-35. - Related academic journals: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Journal of International Migration and Integration Migration and Society
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- CULTURAL POLICIES IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
(HAC905)
Type
ELECTIVE
Department Abbreviation
ΜΙΑΠΑΝΕ
Department
MASTER'S DEGREE IN HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURE IN EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
Course Outlines
The course examines the complex relationship of ‘politics’ and ‘culture’ in the film production of the former Yugoslavia. For decades, cinema as cultural text has been connected to the national narratives. The birth of Yugoslavia after World War II, which stopped the inception of national cinemas, laid the foundations of “Cinema Kommunisto’. The personal vision of Tito to create a Yugoslav cinema balanced between ideological orthodoxy, propaganda and artistic creation. After the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, the independent republics were invited to respond to a cinematic landscape of cultural flows, transnational partnerships and global viewership. The course, starting from film (fiction and documentary) and to a lesser extent, television of the former Yugoslavia countries, will examine issues of national High/ Low culture and cinema, ideology and art, gender, memory and representation, transnationalism and Europeanness through the use of audio-visual and multimedia methods as well as visits to cultural organisations and sites (Cinemateque, Museum of Cinema, festivals).
Indicative bibliography:
Cuche D. 1996. La notion de culture dans les science sociales. Paris: La Decouverte
Dermentzopoulos Ch. & Spyridakis M. 2004. Anthropologia, Kultura and Politiki [Anthropology, Culture, and Politics]. Athens: Metechmio.
Goulding D. J. 2002. Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience 1945-2001. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Hill J. & Gibson P. Church. 2001. Film Studies, Critical Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Thompson Κ. & Bordwell D. 1997. An Art History. An Introduction. NY: McGraw Hill .
Wachtel A. Baruch. 1998. Making A Nation, Breaking A Nation. Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE POST-SOCIALIST WORLD
(ΒΣ304-ΙΙΙ)
Type
ELECTIVE
Department Abbreviation
BSO
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Course Outlines
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- ETHNOGRAPHY & CITY, MOVEMENTS &CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
(ΒΣΑ309-ΙΙΙ-2)
Type
ELECTIVE
Department Abbreviation
BSO
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Course Outlines
COURSE OUTLINE
(1) GENERAL
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Εconomic and Peripheral Studies |
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Dept. of Balkan Studies and Oriental Studies |
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ΒΣΑ 300/200/400-ΕΠ |
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ETHNOGRAPHY & CITY, MOVEMENTS &CULTURAL INDUSTRIES |
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IS THE COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS |
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COURSE WEBSITE (URL) |
https://openeclass.uom.gr/courses/BSO138/ |
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(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Learning outcomes |
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The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described. Consult Appendix A
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-Improving qualitative research skills -Combining ethnographic methods with analytical categories of urban anthropology -Developing digital skills ( making an original video or podcast) |
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General Competences |
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Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim? |
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Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Adapting to new situations Decision-making Working independently Team work Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas |
Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Respect for the natural environment Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking …… Others… ……. |
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-Working in an international environment -Working in an interdisciplinary environment -Criticism and self-criticism -Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
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(3) SYLLABUS
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This course explores key issues in urban ethnography and examines the interconnectedness of cities and globalization. It investigates different types of urban centers, with a particular focus on Eurasia and the Global South. Emphasis will be placed on how capitalism (e.g., markets, the informal economy, port cities), global networks (such as transnational communities), and contemporary challenges and opportunities (including climate change, resilient cities, and smart cities) shape urban life.The course also considers how urban residents—urbanites—are influenced by and respond to practices, material conditions, and circulating ideas within global or globalizing cities, which are continually transformed through local contexts. Within this framework, we will examine the emergence of creative networks, such as festivals, museums, and the mobility of artists, as well as various social movements, including those focused on environmental issues, migrant and refugee solidarity, and LGBTQ+ rights. Special attention will be given to the relationship between urban lifestyles and cinema, and how film continues to shape our perceptions and imaginaries of the urban experience. Weekly Schedule (13 weeks)Week 1 – Introduction: Why Ethnography in/of the City?
Week 2 – Methods I for Urban Ethnography
Week 3 Methods II-Digital story telling and the city Walking, commuting, migration.
Week 4 – Everyday Life and Urban Rhythms
Week5. Urban Publics and Social Movements
Week 6 – Cultural Industries, the Creative City and Inequalities
Week 7– Gentrification, Culture, and Displacement
Week8– –Film and the City
Week 9-Festivals, Nightlife, and Urban Performance
Week 10 – Global Circulations and Postmigrant city
Week 11 -Futures of the Cultural City
Week 12 13- Wrap-up
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TEACHING METHODS The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail. Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.
The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS |
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Description of the evaluation procedure
Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other
Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students. |
Written exams and/or submission of a short essay (2000 words) based on ethnographic research and digital story telling which will be developed and presented inclass. If the essay is not considered satisfactory in the way it will be presented in class , students will take part in the writtent exams and they will have a bonus of 1 ECTS.
Those who do not attend the class and do participate in the class presentation, they will participate only in written exams.
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(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Suggested bibliography: Favero, P. S. (2020). Audio-visual-sensory Essays in Post-Digital Times. Communicating Anthropological Knowledge Across the Multimodal, Multisensory, Participatory and More-than-human. Anthrovision. Vaneasa Online Journal, 8.
Jaffe, Rivke, and Anouk De Koning. Introducing urban anthropology. Routledge, 2022.
Sideri, Eleni. Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity. Berghahn Books, 2023.
- Related academic journals: City and Society, https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1548744x Urbanites, Journal of Urban Ethnographies, https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/ |
- FORCED MIGRATION AND HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY
(ΒΣΑ314-ΙΙΙ)
Type
ELECTIVE
Department Abbreviation
BSO
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Course Outlines
COURSE OUTLINE
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UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA |
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Dept of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies |
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Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises |
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(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Learning outcomes |
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The course learning outcomes, specific knowledge, skills and competences of an appropriate level, which the students will acquire with the successful completion of the course are described. Consult Appendix A
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-Critical thinking -Analytical thinking -Intercultural communication -Tolerance and respect to difference -Independent work |
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General Competences |
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Taking into consideration the general competences that the degree-holder must acquire (as these appear in the Diploma Supplement and appear below), at which of the following does the course aim? |
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Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Adapting to new situations Decision-making Working independently Team work Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas |
Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Respect for the natural environment Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking …… Others………. |
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Working independently Respect for difference and multiculturalism Criticism and self-criticism |
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(3) SYLLABUS
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Lecture 1 (27/2): Conceptualizing Forced Migration – Definitions, Categories, and Key Distinctions Main Theme: Understanding what forced migration is and how it differs from other forms of mobility. Key Topics:
Lecture 2 (2/3 and 6/3).Researching Forced Migration – Methods and Ethical Challenges Main Theme: How do scholars and practitioners study forced migration and humanitarian emergencies? 1. Why Methods Matter
2. Quantitative Approaches 3. Qualitative Approaches 4.Ethics Lecture 3 (9/3 and 13/3/). Guest Speaker, Case Study Lecture 4 (16/3 and 20/3). Guest Speaker, Case Study Lecture 5 (23/3 and 27/3) .Guest Speaker, Case Study Lecture 6.(30/3 and 3/4 ) . Guest Speaker, Case Study Lectures 7, 8, 9, 10,11: Submission and Discussion of project Topic Project Development-Tutorials (20/4-22/5) Lecture 12 (,25/5 and 29/5), 13 (1/6 and 5/6): Presentations and Submission of Essays |
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION
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Online research, communication with students, digital skills for presentations |
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TEACHING METHODS The manner and methods of teaching are described in detail. Lectures, seminars, laboratory practice, fieldwork, study and analysis of bibliography, tutorials, placements, clinical practice, art workshop, interactive teaching, educational visits, project, essay writing, artistic creativity, etc.
The student's study hours for each learning activity are given as well as the hours of non-directed study according to the principles of the ECTS |
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Description of the evaluation procedure
Language of evaluation, methods of evaluation, summative or conclusive, multiple choice questionnaires, short-answer questions, open-ended questions, problem solving, written work, essay/report, oral examination, public presentation, laboratory work, clinical examination of patient, art interpretation, other
Specifically-defined evaluation criteria are given, and if and where they are accessible to students. |
Project development and presentation or Written Exams
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(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Suggested bibliography: Agier M. (2010). Humanity as an identity and its political effects (a note on camps and humanitarian government). Humanity 1(1). P. 29-45 Agier M. (2011). Managing the undesirables: Refugee camps and humanitarian government. Polity Press. Cambridge Carr, M.(2016), Fortress Europe, Paperback Cresswell T. (2009). Towards a politics of mobility. Society and Space, Σελ.17-31 Douzinas, K. (2019), The radical philosophy of rights, Routledge Fassin D (2011) Policing borders, producing boundaries. The governmentality of immigration in dark times.Annual Review of anthropology,40: 213-226 Fassin D. (2007). Humanitarianism as a politics of life. Public Culture 19(3). P.499-520 Gatrell P. (2013) The Making of the Modern Refugee. Oxford University Press Hathaway, J., & Foster, M. (2014). The Law of Refugee Status. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-16, 91-461. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511998300. K. Tsitselikis, (2014) “Studying International Organizations: Exploring Key-notions, Theoretical and Methodological Tools”, International Organizations and the Protection of Human Rights. Essays in honor of professor Parroula Naskou-Perraki, Th. Skouteris & M. Vagias (eds.), Themis pub., Athens, , σελ. 15-30. K. Tsitselikis, (2015) “Temporary migration in Greece”, Transnational migration in transition: state of the art report on temporary migration, Collected Working Papers from the EURA-NET project (Edited by Pirkko Pitkänen and Sergio Carrera), University of Tampere, 142-167. Mezzadra, S. Neilson, B. 2013. Border as a Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, Duke University Press Miller M.J. Castles S. (2020). The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World. The Guilford Press. London Nicholas De Genova, The borders of Europe: Autonomy of migration, Tactics of bordering https://www.nicholasdegenova.com/the-borders-of-europe Parsanoglou D., Tsitselikis K. (2015). The Emergence of the International Regulation of Human Mobility. Ventoura L.(eds) International “Migration Management” in the Early Cold War. The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. Σελ. 13-32 Walters W (2010) Imagined Migration World: The European Union’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Discourse. In: Ceiger M, Pecoud A (eds) The Politics of International Migration Management. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London, p 73-95 - Related academic journals: Journal of Refugee Studies Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Anthropology Matters |
- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION
(HRMS103)
Type
COMPULSORY
Department Abbreviation
HURMIS
Department
MASTER'S DEGREE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND MIGRATION STUDIES
Course Outlines
The course explores how people experience and negotiate borders, belonging, and displacement within systems of control, surveillance, and inclusion. It introduces key theoretical and methodological approaches in the anthropology of migration, including economic, historical, and postcolonial perspectives, network studies, and Global South approaches. Emphasis is placed on ethnographic methods and research ethics when working with mobile and vulnerable populations. Students examine transnational, economic, and gendered migrations and compare these with related categories such as diaspora and refugeehood.
The course investigates the diverse meanings of diaspora—historical and contemporary, digital, and LGBTQ+—to highlight how identity, belonging, and political activism intersect in migrants’ everyday lives and in movements of solidarity.Artistic and cultural representations, such as literature, visual art, and diasporic cinema, are analyzed as alternative ethnographies that express migrant experiences and critique dominant narratives. Furthermore, the aim of this course is to introduce students to the anthropological perspective in the interdisciplinary fields of migration, transnationalism, globalization, and citizenship. It focuses on the reconceptualization of the different categories of ‘otherness’ (racial, religious and gender aspects) in light of anthropological theory and methodology.
The discipline of anthropology uses a holistic and emic approach in analyzing the social dynamics of the migratory process, while centering on participant observation, the hallmark of anthropology, and the construction of subjectivities as the key actors on the move. The course uses the anthropological theory, perspective, and methodology to culturally explore certain experiences of migrants. Under the general concept of mobility, it focuses on voluntary and non-voluntary movements of people and detects political, economic, and overall social aspects that they have taken in recent decades. It focuses on forms of migration as they are shaped in the modern globalized environment and analyzes their gender, racial, religious, and work aspects.
The course will be taught through the discussion of ethnographic case studies. More specifically, the course focuses on host society perceptions, and the migrant responses to these perceptions. The migratory movements of populations are examined in the context of globalization and global warming. It also addresses the impact of globalization on modern population movements and migration policies, and explores key terms, such as ‘migrant’, ‘refugee’, ‘ethnicity’, ‘nationality’, ‘race’, ‘citizenship’, ‘state’, ‘nation’, ‘transnationalism’, ‘mobility’, ‘assimilation’, ‘marginalization’ and ‘integration’.
Towards the end of the course, the social psychological perspective which looks at groups’ mental processes and behaviours, usually through an etic approach and a positivist methodology, will first be noted to shed light on some of the above areas and in particular on ‘assimilation’, ‘marginalisation’, ‘separation’ and ‘integration’ but also ‘psychosocial well-being’; yet it will be combined with the critical social psychological perspective which supports an integrated etic-emic approach and a qualitative methodology.
The critical social psychological perspective prompts its audiences to reflect on underlying assumptions in the discipline of psychology which often underestimate or even neglect the socially constructed aspect of terms such as ‘pathology’, ‘mental illness’,’ psychological trauma’, ‘diagnosis’, ‘treatment’ and the unfair treatment this neglect may bring upon marginalized or minority groups. The above mean that towards the end of this course the perspective of anthropology-as outlined in the previous paragraphs- will make dialogue with the perspective of social psychology- as outlined above- in order to better understand migrant experiences and migrant well-being.
Publications
- Books (16 records)
Περιλαμβάνει Βιβλία ή/και μονογραφίες σε διεθνείς ή ελληνικούς εκδοτικούς οίκους. Κεφάλαια ή άρθρα συλλογικών τόμων ή επιμέλεια τόμων σε διεθνείς ή ελληνικούς εκδοτικούς οίκους.
2025
- Sideri, Eleni. "The Two Sides of the Mirror: Stereotypes of and from People on the Move in Europe." European Identities, Inclusion and Equality: Social Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups in the European Union. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland 15-25.
2023
- Co-producing Europe.Ethnogrpahy of Film-markets, creativity and identity. London: Berghahn.
2017
- Hospitality, Acceptance and Integration” Hellenic Open University-Press Project. Refugee Education and Support Initiative. Development of educational material for the online refugee awareness training program (Action 8).
- Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia. Afterword in Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave, Macmillan-Palgrave, pp 171-199.
- Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia. Introduction to Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave, Macmillan-Palgrave, pp. 1-35.
- Eleni Sideri . Historical Diasporas, Religion and Identity: Exploring the Case of the Tsalka Greeks. Pp. 35-57.
- Eleni Sideri and Lydia Efthymia Roupakia (Eds.) Religions and Migrations in the Black Sea Region. Macmillan-Palgrave
2016
- Mobility in Thessaloniki: The Greek Economic Crisis and the Transformation of Mobility in Walking in the European City. Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography edited by T. Shortell and E Brown. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 91-109.
- Urban Memory and Mobility: The Designing of a City Museum in Greece in Airing the Past: Inquiries into Digital Memories edited by N.R.Ortega, F.Diez-Platas and Seppo Kuivakari,pp 45-57 Oxford: Inter- disciplinary Press [E-BOOK]
- Γέφυρες, Νησίδες και Χάσματα στο Η μνήμη αφηγείται την πόλη. Προφορική Ιστορία και στη Μνήμη του Αστικού Χώρου Πλέθρον, (με την επιμέλεια των Ποθητή Χαντζαρούλα και Riki Van Boeschoten), 125-145.
- Im / mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Volos-Greece in Bounded Mobilities Edited by Sabina Leoncini, Julia Schwarz, Andreas Hackl, Miriam Gutekunst. Bielefeld: Verlag. Pp. 95-113.
- Immaginare Casa: L 'Im-mobiita dei Gregci dell ex Uionne Sovietica [Imagine Home: The Immobilization of Greeks in the Former Soviet Union] (2016) In Chi, cosa. Rifugiati, transnazionalism e frontiere [To whom. Refugees, Transnationality and Borders] Osvaldo Constantini, Aurora Massa and Jvan Yazdani (eds). Rome: Editions Misiones, pp. 257-280.
2013
- Travelling in the Caucasus: Mobile Methodologies and Lifestyles in the Field in Lifestyle Mobilities edited by T. Duncan, S. Cohen and M. Thulemark. London, Ashgate. Pp 113-129.
- Μιλώντας Ελληνικά στον Καύκασο στο Έθνος πέρα των Συνόρων. Οι Ομογενειακές Πολιτικές του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Λ. Βεντούρα και Λ. Μπλατσιώτης (επ.). Αθήνα: Βιβλιόραμα. σσ 439-465
2012
- “Frozen conflicts, mobility and the future of the Greek-Abkhazians in Reflections on Abkhazia: 1992-2012 edited by Metin Sonmez ,
2010
- B-log on Social Change and Educational Reform: The Case of a Greek University Class in Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes edited by L. Shedletsky & Joan E. Aitken. Maine: IGI-GLOBAL. pp123-140.
- Scientific Journals (21 records)
Περιλαμβάνει Άρθρα σε διεθνή ή ελληνικά επιστημονικά περιοδικά (με κριτές).
2025
- Sideri, Eleni. "“My Xene.” Care, Affect, and Creative Non‐Fiction Among Mothers and Daughters." Anthropology and Humanism https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70041
2024
- Τηλεοπτικές αποτυπώσεις της γειτονιάς, νοσταλγία και πολιτισμική μνήμη
- 2024. Sideri, Eleni. "Female Genealogy and Cultural Memory in Georgia." Genealogy 8.3 (2024): 82.
- Sideri, E. Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women. Memory Studies, 0(0).
2023
- 2023. Sideri, Eleni, and Elina Kapetanaki. "Historical center and the clothing industry. women make clothes and history." Anthropologya/Anthropology 10(2),
2022
- 2022. Sideri, Eleni, and Elina Kapetanaki. "From Participant Observation to the Observation of Social Distancing: Teaching Ethnography, Blogging and University Education during the Pandemic." Teaching Anthropology 11(2): 86-96.
- 2022. Σιδέρη, Ελένη. "Ελληνικές Συμπαραγωγές: από τον ιδεολογικό σκεπτικισμό στον οικονομικό πραγματισμό." Θεάτρου Πόλις. Διεπιστημονικό περιοδικό για το θέατρο και τις τέχνες (2022): 220-233.
2021
- 2020 [publ.2021], “Multimodality in Ethnographic Research and Representation Conducting Anthropology of Cinema in Greece” Angela Treiber, Heidrun Alzheimer, Sabine Doering-Manteu????fel, and Daniel Drascek (eds.) Jahrbuch fur Europaische Ethnologie Griechenland. Fragile Ordnungen und die Politik der Kultur Brill, pp. 57-75.
- 2021, « City Museums and Local Integration Policies: The Case of the Volos City Museum », Balkanologie [Οnline], Vol. 16 n° 1
2020
- 2020 Imagination and Ethnography. Bridging the Gap of (not) Being There through Film. Τeaching Anthropology 9(1), 50-58
2019
- 2019, ‘Co-producing Methods and Knowledge in Teaching Migration’2019 Discussion Series: Creative Methods of Dissemination in Forced Migration Research Part of the ESPMI Network’s Knowledge Cluster Project on New Dissemination Practices & Public Engagement in Forced Migration Research
- How can a mix of innovative research methods (like walking, visiting the place of labour) and creative representation through digital arts combining photographs, and podcasts challenge students’ perceptions of ‘what we do in class’, ‘how knowledge is constructed’ and ‘who immigrants are’?”
2017
- Bridging Worlds: Producing and Imagining the Transnational through TV Narratives. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, Volume 9, No. 2 – Special Issue Narrative and Audiovisual Creation, pp.27-35 (open access)
2016
- Prisoner (Once Again) of the Caucasus: An Ethnography of Film
2015
- Accumulating Transnational Social Capital among the Greeks from the former Soviet Union: Education, Ethnicity, Gender”. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies vol 9/1, pp. 69-87
2012
- “Looking for the ‘language of recognition’ among the Greek communities of Georgia”. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 21(1), pp 41-60.
- Τhe land of the Golden Fleece: conflict and heritage in Abkhazia” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 14(2), pp. 263-279.
2009
- “Pearls are a girl’s best friend: nostalgia and its discontents in the life stories of two Georgian women” International Black Sea University Scientific Journal 1(3), 97-112 (published July 2010)
2008
- “Τhe diaspora of the term diaspora. a working paper of a definition”. Transtext(e)sTranscultures Journal of Global Cultural Studies 4, pp 32-47
2007
- Past strategies and present exigencies: time and social networks in modern Tbilisi” in Re-public
2006
- In quest of eastern Europe: troubling encounters in the post-cold war field” Anthropology Matters vol. 8(1)
- Conferences (6 records)
Περιλαμβάνει Άρθρα σε δημοσιευμένα πρακτικά διεθνών ή ελληνικών συνεδρίων (με κριτές).
2021
- 2021. “Cultural Neighbourhoods and Co-productions in South East Europe and Beyond. An Introduction” Sideri E. (ed.). Cultural Neighbourhoods and Coproductions in South East Europe and Beyond 4th Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures. Thessaloniki: UoM, pp1-15.
2015
- Locating Belonging, refiguring space: Mediterranean crossings and the4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (joint paper with Lydia Roupakia and Evi Baniotopoulou) in the minutes of E’ Conference of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies (EENS),
2014
- 8-10/5/2014 Αθήνα, Digital Story-telling in Times of Crisis, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης Digital story-telling and the city: designing the museum of the city of Volos
2008
- . Narrating the Homeland: the double articulation of the language with the national and diaspora in Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Dept. of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy 28th Language& Society. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 21-22-2007, Thessaloniki: Institute of New-Hellenic Studies, p.p.378-391.
2007
- Crossing the b-orders: from Georgia to Greece in Gendering transformations/Έμφυλοι Μετασχηματισμοί. Proceedings edited by G. Papageorgiou. Rethymnon: University of Crete, pp.98-109.
- From imagining the nation to Imagining the Diaspora: Transnationalism and Diasporic Greek Media in G(l)ocal Media in Transition. The case of South-Eastern Europe 1990-2007 edited by H. Briel (ed). Skopje: Blesok, 73-87.
- Other (9 records)
Περιλαμβάνει Παρουσιάσεις σε διεθνή ή ελληνικά συνέδρια χωρίς δημοσίευση σε πρακτικά.
2019
- 9/2/2019, Λονδίνο, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research-Birbeck College, Identity, projection and the Other. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης European Cinema as Cinema of the Other: constructing identity in regional co-production markets.
- 31/5-2/6/2019. Bόλος. Data-Stories Conference. New Critical Aesthetics and Discourses for Critical Digital Ethnography. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης My Post-Doc in Three Pictures.Data Visulasation and Ethnographic Writing /Representation.
- 12-13/9/2019. Μασσαλία. 3rd Balkan Studies Conference . Villes des Balkans. Echelles Locale, Nationale, Globale. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης Thessaloniki and Sarajevo as Regional Film Markets. EU cultural Politics and City Branding.
2018
- 12-13/5/2018, Θεσσαλονίκη, Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας, Teaching and Learning Anthropology and Ethnography in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Making sense of cultural difference in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Being here-seeing there”: Teaching area studies through feature films
2016
- 16-12/4/2016, Σόφια, COST Action IS1203 In search of transcultural memory in Europe (ISTME) Transcultural memory and reception in Europe Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Mediated memory: European media policy and memory in Georgian cinema
2015
- 24-28/6/2015, IMISCOE Ετήσιο Συνέδριο, Γενεύη, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Greek Diaspora Voting.
2013
- 6-7/07/2013, Λονδίνο, Hellenic Greek Centre, Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Nation as Family and Transnational Families
2007
- 24-27/05/2007, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in South Eastern Europe, Τιμισοάρα, Association of South Eastern Europe Anthropology (ASEA), Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Borders and Orders: constructing regions and selves in shifting European lands.
2000
- 23-15/06/2000, 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Ethics the Ethics of Gender, Λιντς, University of Leeds, Τίτλος Παρουσίασης: Online Engendered Identities and Language.






