Impact of International Migration

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This course is a sociological survey of immigration and ethnicity, with a primary focus on originating countries of immigrants and their experiences in the contemporary United States. The causes of immigration will be studied. Various assimilation patterns will be compared and analyzed. We will examine the needs of immigrants including housing, employment, education and medical care, and what kind of impacts they will cause on receiving society. Graduate Credit: This course is not available for graduate credit.