Immigration and Refugee Movements

Catalog description

This course covers the main issues, causes, and effects of mass population movements. It is a comparative study of selected recent and current immigrant and refugee groups, their origins, cultures, and current socioeconomic situations. It covers their strengths, challenges, and contributions to their new societies. The realities of particular class, ethnic, gender, generation, and political groups will be analyzed. Refugee and immigrant groups within communities of North America and other areas will be studied.