ANTH 235
Refugees and Migrants
Last Offered Fall 2018
Division II
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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An overflow of refugees to the EU and alarmist electoral campaign rhetoric in the U.S. have intensified the issue of international migration around the world. Right- and left-wing politicians and their constituents, human rights activists and state officials, journalists and NGOs discuss, argue, and mull over causes and consequences of population change, strategies of migration management, and predicaments of social integration. In this course, we will examine the emerging conditions of international migration. Specifically, we will focus on how contemporary welfare and labor regimes, claims on citizenship rights, immigration rules, public deliberations, and interethnic and racial experience shape the movements of people and affect their lives by controlling their bodies, subjectivities, social networks, health, and labor. We will draw on domestic and international case studies as we examine a controversy surrounding the Arizona immigration law, DACA debates, challenges of a migration crisis in EU, rural-to-urban migration in India, and a complexity of refugee flows in the Caucasus and the Middle East. We will briefly engage with the subtleties of migration estimation, such as the politics of population censuses, and will analyze consequences of immigration on host populations.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: none
Expected: 20
Class#: 1096
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one midterm, two short policy memos, one research paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: seniors and juniors
Distributions: Division II

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