Immigration and Coloniality.

Catalog description

This course focuses on human migration and its modern origins and development in a global context of political-economic inequalities. The course offers historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives on immigration and incorporation of immigrants to the United States. It examines competing and complementary theories on migration, and assesses their explanatory power on the basis of historical, empirical, and standpoint evidence. This graduate elective course aligns with various program learning objectives including critical thinking, intercultural knowledge and competency; and inquiry and analysis.