Immigration & the Global City

Catalog description

This course a broad overview of the literature on immigration and the urban environment. The course starts with a review of early writings on migrants in the city (the Chicago school) and continues with an analysis of selected research topics, such as transnationalism, settlement patterns, ethnic segregation, global cities and urban citizenship. The course employs a variety of disciplinary perspectives on urban studies, including sociology, geography and anthropology. It focuses on examples from the New York Metropolitan Area. (Previously NJCU Course ETHN-225)