Middle East & The World

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This course will focus on migration to and from the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th century and the politics of mobility regulation, identity, and citizenship. Topics will include the massive 19th-century influx of Muslim refugees from Russian and the Balkans to Ottoman lands; forced population transfer, including the Armenian genocide and Turkish and Greek "population exchange" of 1923; settler colonialism; Arab migration to the Americas; and post-colonial Muslim migrations to Europe.