GLOBAL MIGRATION AND ETHICS

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This course examines the current scholarship on the anthropology and interdisciplinary study of global migration, and the ethical predicaments at center of contemporary forms of human mobility. Students will consider the particularities of migratory experiences in different regions of the world, and the different types of local, national, and global moral economies that emerge in these different places and histories. Particular attention will be focused on the political questions that arise when human compassion runs into conflict with the desire to preserve the cultural integrity of one's national identity. The course will draw on ethnographic texts, legal and policy materials, biographies, literature, film, and artistic responses to contemporary migration and refugee crises. 001354