BERLIN PERSPECTIVES

Diversity and Ethnic Entrepreneurship of Berlin

Semester: winter semester 2019/20

Course instructor: You Kyung Byun (byun.youkyung@gmail.com)

Subject area: Kultur & Gesellschaft / Culture & Society

Credits: 5 ECTS

Time: Wednesdays 14-16 c.t.

Room: 0323-26, 3rd floor, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7

Course description: This course discovers the cultural diversity in Berlin's economic scape. Cultural diversity is a crucial term describing Berlin, where people with various ethnic background live together. This diversity is reflected in various business as well, such as ethnic restaurants, market places, and event location. For instance, more than 50 national cuisines are present among around 5000 restaurants in Berlin. This diversity of ethnic entrepreneurship is deeply involved in everyday life, such as doing grocery in a Turkish supermarket and having lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant. Ethnic entrepreneurship reflects multilayered connections of the local business to the origin of the represented culture and multicultural identity of the entrepreneurs. Who are the ethnic entrepreneurs in Berlin? How do they reproduce their national and international identity in their entrepreneurship? How does it interact with the city’s socioeconomic environment? This course aims to explore, critically analyze, and comprehend the cultural diversity and ethnic entrepreneurship in Berlin. Besides the introduction of key theoretical concepts to understand ethnic diversity of a global city, course participants will also work with the examples from Berlin’s multicultural economic sceneries to implement the learned theories in practices. For this purpose, participants are expected to conduct a small individual project to discover ethnic entrepreneurship in Berlin. Through these exercises, participants expect to develop individual perspectives in living together in a multicultural city. Learning objectives: The goal of this seminar is to raise awareness of Berlin's ethnic diversity in the economic scape. To achieve this goal, participants will learn theoretical concepts, critically implement them to analyze the phenomena, and transfer the results to other course participants. In this course, participants will learn

• academic skills to comprehend and identify the diverse social fields of a global city using essential theoretical concepts, such as super-diversity, ethnoscapes, authenticity, and embeddedness.

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• migration history of Berlin. • to develop a feasible research question. • tools to individually conduct a small research project and to interpret the collected

materials. • to critically reflect theories and build their argument. • to prepare an academic presentation, deliver the main message, and respond to

the questions in public. • to work in a group and exchange original ideas in a productive environment. • academic writing, how to structure and deliver the main idea in a short essay.

Examples for assessment portfolio: One can get max. 100 points from this course. 1. One short presentation of reading materials, which entails the core idea of the text and one question for discussion (about 15-20 min, 40 points). Here you will practice giving an academic presentation (10 points), delivering the main idea to the listener (10 points), and answering the questions (10 points). Responding, giving feedback, and discussing as listeners will also be counted for the active participation (10 points). After the presentation, the instructor will provide individual feedback. 2. Developing individual project and presenting it in the course (week 11 and 16, for about 5-10 min, 10 points each x twice = 20 points in total) *Participants, who present a field report (week 6, 8, 10, and 13, for about 30-45 min.), will be counted for having completed task 1 and 2 both (in total 60 points). 3. Writing a short essay (about 2000 words, 40 points, due on the 14. Feb. 2020): You are requested to write a short essay about your small research project that you present in the course. In the essay, you develop a research question and answer it in a logical structure. Your idea and topic will be discussed in the course with the instructor and other participants. You can use this opportunity to get feedback, develop ideas, and elaborate it in your essay. The 40 points for the essay are distributed into: research question (5 points), theory (5 points), method (5 points), logical argumentation (5 points), conclusion (5 points), grammar (5 points), citation (5 points), and meeting the due date (5 points). You may write it in English or German. Please be aware of plagiarism policy (please use a consequent citation style in writing when you borrow another person's words, ideas, or images. Failing this duty will result in 0 point, which means the failure of this course.) points - 60 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84 85-89 90-94 95-99 100

equivalent Fail 3.7 3.3 3 2.7 2.3 2 1.7 1.3 1

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Language requirements: The minimum language requirement for this course is English at B2 and German at A1 level. English is required as the important reading materials and discussion will be in English. There will be a minor number of recommended reading materials and resources written in German. Timetable: Session 1: 16.10.2019 Introduction of the course Session 2: 23.10.2019 Diversity and super-diversity in Berlin

Vertovec, Steven. 2007. “Super-diversity and its implications.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30(6): 1024-1054.

Recommended reading: Statistisches Bundesamt. 2018. Statistisches Jahrbuch: 2. Bevölkerung,

Familien, Lebensformen. Retrieved July 1, 2019 (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Querschnitt/Jahrbuch/jb-bevoelkerung.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=6).

Session 3: 30.10.2019 Migrants in Berlin

Kil, Wolfgang and Hilary Silver. 2006. “From Kreuzberg to Marzahn: New Migrant Communities in Berlin.” German Politics & Society 24(4): 95-121.

Ehrkamp, Patricia and Helga Leitner. 2003. “Beyond National Citizenship: Turkish Immigrants and the (RE)Construction of Citizenship in Germany.” Urban Geography 24(2): 127-146.

Recommended reading: Gyapay, Borbála. 2012. “Die Veränderung des ethnischen Bildes Berlins.”

Zeitschrift für amtliche Statistik Berlin Brandenburg 3: 46-55. Session 4: 06.11.2019 Ethnoscape and Berlin

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. Page: 27-65.

Session 5: 13.11.2019 Ethnic entrepreneurship and Berlin

Pécoud, Antoine. 2004. “Entrepreneurship and Identity: Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Competencies Among German-Turkish Business people in Berlin.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 30(1): 3-20.

Smart, Josephine. 2003. “Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Transmigration, And Social Integration: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Restaurant Owners In Rural Western Canada.” Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 32(3-4): 311-342.

Session 6: 20.11.2019 Field report 1 (example: Dong Xuan Center or Polenmarkt)

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Session 7: 27.11.2019 Ethnic cuisine and authenticity in Berlin Bui, Pipo. 2003. Envisioning Vietnamese Migrants in Germany: Ethnic

stigma, immigrant origin narratives and partial masking. Münster: LIT Verlag. Page: 178-219.

Lindholm, Charles. 2008. Culture and Authenticity. UK: Blackwell Publishing. Page: 1-10.

Recommended reading: Lindholm, Charles. 2008. Culture and Authenticity. UK: Blackwell

Publishing. Page: 77-87. Session 8: 04.12.2019 Field report 2 (example: a restaurant or a food stand) Session 9: 11.12.2019 Capitalization of culture

Shaw, Stephen, Susan Bagwell, and Joanna Karmowska. 2004. “Ethnoscapes as Spectacle: Reimaging Multicultural Districts as New Destinations for Leisure and Tourism Consumption.” Urban Studies 41(10): 1983-2000.

Zukin, Sharon. 1995. The Cultures of Cities. Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Page: 1-48.

Session 10: 18.12.2019 Field report 3 (example: Maybachufer or Markthalle Neun) Session 11: 08.01.2020 Presentation of individual project ideas and plans Session 12: 15.01.2020 Critical perspectives

Bloomfield, Jude. 2003. “Made in Berlin: Multicultural conceptual confusion and intercultural reality.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 9(2): 167-183.

Rath, Jan and Robert Kloosterman. 2000. “Outsiders’ Business: A critical review of research on immigrant entrepreneurship.” International Migration Review 34(3): 657-681.

Session 13: 22.01.2020 Field report 4 (example: a tourist office) Session 14: 29.01.2020 Beyond the ethnic lens

Schiller, Nina Glick, Ayșe Çağlar, and Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen. 2006. "Beyond the Ethnic Lens: Locality, globality, and born-againincorporationn.” American Ethnologist 33(4): 612-633.

Recommended reading: Celik, Cetin. 2015. “‘Having a German passport will not make me German’:

reactive ethnicity and oppositional identity among disadvantaged male Turkish second-generation youth in Germany.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(9): 1646–1662.

Session 15: 05.02.2019 Individual working week Session 16: 12.02.2019 Presentation of individual projects and concluding

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Literature: The course will actively utilize moodle for downloading reading materials and uploading course assignments. Please refer to the course schedule to find the obligatory and recommended reading list.

Remarks: You may not miss more than two sessions (HU rules: 80% attendance needed in order to pass). Please contact the instructor in advance when you cannot attend a session. You might be able to complete a make-up task. In case of illness or other unexpected situations, you need to submit a prove (such as a doctor's letter).