Migration, Inequality and Culture

Catalog description

This course introduces the major episodes and patterns in the history of human migration over the last millennium. It examines how mobile people have shaped various institutions and cultural forms which illuminate global structures of power and inequality. Students will learn the relationship between migration and race, class, gender, citizenship, colonialism, nation, nationalism, political movements, trade, religion, and labor. The course uses sociological, anthropological and political theories for historical analysis of migration patterns and the social position of migrants. Topics include Indian Ocean trade networks, pilgrimage, Atlantic slave trade, mobility and colonial state building processes, and trans-national political movements. 001341