Welcome

MM 202 Multiculturalism in Western Europe and North America

2004/2005

Lecture materials

I. Theoretical framework

 Week 1 (23.2.)     Introduction to the course and terminology

					(Ethnicity, race, culture, identity)

  Week 2 (2.3.)       Introduction - cont.; Concept of Multiculturalism

  Week 3  (9.3.)     	Racisms & Discrimination

                             	homework: Article on the Nacirema

 Week 4 (16.3.)     	Migration Asylum Nexus

                         	BBC articles on Asylum trends, 1 March 2005

 Week 5 (23.3.)      Blue Eyed (video cum discussion) - Lucie Cviklova

		short annotation is available here

II. Policy implications

 Week 6 (30.3.)     Definitions and forms of discrimination; institutional racism

Case study 3 - Education

 Week 7 (6.4.)     	Legislative framework: international instruments

                             	Presentation by František

III. Minority Case study

 Week 8 (13.4.)     The Roma Road (video cum discussion) - Lucie Cviklova

                             	article on the film by Jan Čulík , Czech version is available here

                             	some press coverage in UK

                             	and again Jan Čulík

Week 9 (20.4.)   	Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers

		presentation Creation of Race by Kady Tammye

 IV. Country Case studies

Week 10 (7.4.) 	UK, Czech Republic ppt

			CZ government report on minorities

			Homogenisation of CZ

			UK schools

			UK statistics

 		Chinese immigrants in USA  by  Liyan Hu, 	notes in Word

Week 11 (4.5.)    	Canada,  the Netherlands

 			article on asylum in NL

		Political terror in Mari El  by Anna Rönngård

		Affirmative Action by Lauren Jennings

		Intercultural education by Jessica Rodermans

Week 12 (18.5.)	Conclusion + The Netherlands - cont.

		Czech Immigration Policy by Lenka Šíšová